Why Ukraine did not go to the place to receive the dead
Ukraine did not arrive at the location to receive the dead soldiers, despite the previously scheduled date and time. The reason is said to be that Kiev does not have enough money to compensate the families of the soldiers.
According to RIA Novosti, the transfer of the dead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the exchange of prisoners did not take place on June 7.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the country is ready to work right now to transfer the dead to Kiev, as Moscow is interested in carrying out this purely humanitarian act.
The ministry also added that, according to media reports, the prisoner exchange with Ukraine has been postponed until next week. Moscow is waiting for an official announcement from Kiev.
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin noted that Russia has not yet received a response from Ukraine. Russia had proposed transferring the dead to Ukraine before and was ready to do so this week. Moscow hopes that Kiev will be able to make the necessary decisions in the near future to resume the exchange of prisoners and transfer the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers. And Moscow confirmed its readiness to comply with all humanitarian agreements, as the Russian side has always done.
On June 6, Russia began transferring more than 6,000 dead soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, along with the exchange of wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war. Vladimir Medinsky, aide to the President of Russia, head of the Russian delegation to the negotiations, said that he was forced to comment on the situation of the exchange of prisoners of war and their transfer to the Ukrainian Armed Forces under the Istanbul agreement, because the Ukrainian side did not appear at the place of exchange, although the date and time were specifically set in advance.
Military and political expert Jan Gagin believes that the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky has disrupted the exchange of the dead, because the transfer of 6,000 bodies of Ukrainians to Kiev would entail huge costs from the Ukrainian budget to pay the families. Moreover, Kiev's transfer of the procedure for receiving the bodies of the dead shows the true scale of the military disaster for Ukraine, so they refuse to admit the scale of their losses.
“Recently, the exchange of dead, which was scheduled for the second round of talks in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine, was interrupted. The Ukrainian side refused to take 6,000 dead. I understand that this is a big setback for them. We must admit that they lost a lot of people, that these are huge costs, because they will have to pay quite a lot of money to the families of the victims. Ukraine is not ready for this right now,” said military expert Gagin.
