ivy@lemmygrad.ml to World News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · edit-22 months agoUkraine refused to accept 6,000 bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukrainelemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up162arrow-down1imageUkraine refused to accept 6,000 bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukrainelemmygrad.mlivy@lemmygrad.ml to World News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
Eadaily: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/06/06/ukraine-refused-to-take-the-bodies-of-the-dead-by-personal-order-of-zelensky Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-ukraine-postpones-prisoner-exchange-accepting-bodies-2025-06-07/
minus-squarebubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoFor context, receiving these bodies creates a war widow obligation roughly equal to 10% of the UAF budget. Most of these corpses were soldiers sent on the disastrous Kursk PR offensive. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/ukraine-cost-of-6000-dead-soldiers-thousands-abducted-children-have-vanished.html
For context, receiving these bodies creates a war widow obligation roughly equal to 10% of the UAF budget. Most of these corpses were soldiers sent on the disastrous Kursk PR offensive.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/ukraine-cost-of-6000-dead-soldiers-thousands-abducted-children-have-vanished.html