Russian officials said on Sunday that Moscow is still waiting for the official confirmation of Ukraine that one Planned exchange of 6,000 bodies of soldiers who are killed in action will take place, which repeats accusations that Kyiv had postponed the swap.
On the front line the warRussia said it was pushed in the Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine.
The Russian state media quoted Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, a representative of the Russian negotiating group, who said that Russia delivered the first party of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers of the Ukrainian soldiers to the exchange site on the border “that was” pricing of bodies, but that would be bodies, but that would be bodies, but that would be bodies.
With reference to Zorin on her telegram channel, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova asked if the Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy’s “Personal decision was not to take the bodies of the Ukrainians” or that “someone from the NATO forbade.”
Russia and Ukraine each accused the other person on Saturday of endangering plans to exchange 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in action, agreed during Direct conversations in Istanbul on Monday Otherwise that made no progress to end the war.
Vladimir Medinsky, an assistant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, led the Russian delegation. Medinsky said Kyiv stopped a last-minute to an imminent exchange. In a telegramp post on Saturday, he said that cooled trucks with more than 1,200 bodies from Ukrainian troops from Russia had already reached the agreed exchange site at the border when the news came.
In response, Ukraine said that Russia played ‘dirty games’ and manipulated facts.
According to the most important Ukrainian authority that deals with such swaps, no date was set to repatriate the bodies. In a statement on Saturday, the Russia agency also accused the submission of prisoners of war for repatriation that did not match agreements that were reached on Monday.
It was not immediately possible to reconcile the conflicting claims.
In other developments, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday that its troops had reached the western edge of the Donetsk region, one of the four provinces of Russia illegally attached in 2022, and that troops “developed the offensive” in the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region. This would be the first time that Russian troops had been pushed into the region in the more than three -year -old war.
Ukraine did not immediately respond to the claim and the Associated Press could not immediately verify this.
The advance of Russia would mark an important setback for the already stretched forces of Ukraine, while peace talks get stuck and Russian troops have achieved incremental profit elsewhere.
One person was killed and another seriously injured in Russian air strikes in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv. These strikes came afterwards Russian attacks Focused on the regional capital, also known as Kharkiv, on Saturday. The regional police in Kharkiv said on Sunday that the death toll of Saturday’s attacks had risen to six people. More than two dozen others were injured.
Russia fired a total of 49 exploding drones and lures and three rockets at night, said Ukraine Air Force on Sunday. Forty drones were shot or electronically stalled.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that his troops shot 61 Ukrainian drones at night, including near the capital.
Five people were injured on Sunday in a Ukrainian drone attack in a parking lot in the Russian region of Belgorod, according to the regional government Vyacheslav Gladkov. Two people were injured when a Ukrainian drone attack led to a fire in a chemical factory in the Tula region, the local authorities said.
The Russian authorities said on Sunday that Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports, two international airports that serve Moscow, have temporarily suspended flights due to a Ukrainian drone attack. Later in the day, Domodedovo temporarily stopped flights for the second time, together with Zhukovsky Airport.
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