Over 26,000 bodies returned to Ukraine remain partly unidentified, Budanov says
Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said identification efforts for fallen soldiers must be accelerated.
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More than 26,000 bodies have been returned to Ukraine as part of recovery efforts related to the war with Russia, but many remain unidentified, according to Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, as reported by Ukrinform.
Budanov said the process of identifying fallen defenders must be accelerated, adding that the government plans to adopt the regulatory and legal decisions needed to speed up identification efforts in the near future.
The report did not specify a timeframe for when additional measures would take effect or detail the specific obstacles currently slowing the identification process.
Ongoing recovery efforts
Recovering and identifying the remains of fallen soldiers has remained a significant and sensitive undertaking throughout Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with exchanges of bodies between the two sides occurring periodically as part of broader humanitarian arrangements.
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- More than 26,000 bodies returned to Ukraine, but many remain unidentified – Budanov — Ukrinform (Ukraine)
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