Bodies of 909 fallen Ukrainian defenders returned to Ukraine

According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Telegram by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

Among the repatriated defenders "brought home on their shields" are those who perished in the Kurakhove, Pokrovsk, Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Kharkiv directions, as well as from morgues located on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The return of the bodies was made possible through the joint efforts of the Coordination Headquarters staff, the Joint Center at the Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and other structures of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Sector.

The Coordination Headquarters expressed gratitude to the International Committee of the Red Cross for their support.

“A special thank you goes to the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who transport the repatriated fallen Heroes to designated specialized state institutions and organize the transfer of the deceased to law enforcement representatives within the Ministry of Internal Affairs system and forensic medical experts within the Ministry of Health system,” the Headquarters noted, emphasizing that investigators and expert agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will work promptly to identify the fallen.

As Ukrinform previously reported, on April 18, Ukraine also succeeded in returning the bodies of 909 fallen defenders through repatriation efforts.