The surroundings of the city of Donetsk alone represent 451 repatriated bodies.
About 130 of the remains come from the Zaporijjia (South) area, where Russia has intensified its attacks in recent months.
This reinforcement makes Ukraine fears a Russian offensive in this direction, kyiv’s troops being already struggling on the eastern front.
Thirty-four other remains have no identified areas and come from “different Russian morgues”, according to the Ukrainian center.
Last December, Ukraine announced that it had received the bodies of 503 of its soldiers who fell in battle.
In October, 501 other remains were repatriated, according to kyiv.
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The number of soldiers killed since the start of the conflict remains difficult to determine with precision, each camp that is reluctant to communicate on its own losses and largely inflating the losses of the other.
In December, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 370,000 injured since the Russian invasion of 2022, an assessment that could be undervalued, observers said.
For its part, Russia, which does not communicate its losses in Ukraine, also does not state the return of the remains of its soldiers.
The number of Russian soldiers killed has been established at more than 82,000 by the independent media Mediazona and the Russian BBC service, which are based on the exploitation of public information, such as official press releases, the NECR -and advertisements and the announcements of Death on social networks, as well as on the observation of tombs in cemeteries.
