The bodies of 757 fallen Defenders have been returned to Ukraine as a result of repatriation activities. Source: Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Among the returned Defenders:
- 451 from the Donetsk sector,
- 71 from the Bakhmut direction,
- 51 from the Vuhledar direction,
- 13 from the Luhansk sector,
- 137 from the Zaporizhzhya sector,
- 34 from morgues in the Russian Federation.
This was made possible by the joint work of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Central Department of Civil-Military Cooperation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Joint Centre of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and other structures of the Security and Defence Sector of Ukraine.
