{"id":1249914,"date":"2025-06-21T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/during-the-exchange-of-bodies-russia-handed-over-20-of-its-soldiers-to-ukraine-zelensky-explained-the-russians-strategy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T06:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:48:05","slug":"during-the-exchange-of-bodies-russia-handed-over-20-of-its-soldiers-to-ukraine-zelensky-explained-the-russians-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/during-the-exchange-of-bodies-russia-handed-over-20-of-its-soldiers-to-ukraine-zelensky-explained-the-russians-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Reveals Russia\u2019s Strategy as 20 Soldier Bodies Returned in Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a recent exchange of fallen soldiers, Russia transferred the bodies of 20 of its servicemen to Ukraine \u2014 a move that sheds light on Moscow\u2019s broader strategy, according to President Zelenskyy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/14801\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was announced by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"170\">According to President Zelenskyy, the Russian side claimed that the transferred bodies were solely those of Ukrainian defenders \u2014 a statement that turned out to be false.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"245\">He noted that, in some cases, Russian passports were found on the bodies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"463\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cThey can\u2019t even verify whom they\u2019re sending,\u201d Zelenskyy emphasized. \u201cOf course, we want to bring home all our soldiers and the bodies of our heroes. But we won\u2019t accept Russian soldiers just to make up the numbers.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He noted that this is the Kremlin&#8217;s attempt to downplay the true number of Russian military casualties,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukrinform<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-society\/4006678-zelenskij-pid-cas-ostannogo-obminu-ukraini-peredali-20-til-vijskovih-aki-vouvali-na-boci-rf.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"463\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n\u201cIf you present it as though there are a hundred dead Ukrainians for every Russian soldier, it doesn\u2019t seem as frightening. The goal is to distort the reality we\u2019re living in \u2014 a reality where far more Russian troops are dying,\u201d Zelenskyy explained.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that during the last repatriation of the fallen soldiers, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/obmin-polehlymy-viyskovymy-rosiia-peredala-ukraini-tila-svoikh-soldativ\/\">Russia transferred the bodies of its soldiers to Ukraine mixed with the bodies of Ukrainian defenders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on June 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-ukrainu-povernuly-shche-1245-til-zahyblykh\/\">another 1,245 bodies of the dead were returned to Ukraine<\/a>. The repatriation part of the Istanbul agreements with Russia has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-vpb-inserted=\" 66tzuf.s4\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent exchange of fallen soldiers, Russia transferred the bodies of 20 of its servicemen to Ukraine \u2014 a move that sheds light on Moscow\u2019s broader strategy, according to President Zelenskyy. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to President Zelenskyy, the Russian side claimed that the transferred bodies were solely those of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1248245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1249914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250142,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249914\/revisions\/1250142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}