Ukraine war: 1,212 soldiers' bodies repatriated in latest swap with Russia

Russia receives 27 soldiers' bodies as the warring sides continue their large-scale prisoner swap deal.

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In return Russia received 27 bodies, Moscow's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said.

The prisoner exchange deal was the only tangible result of peace talks in Turkey last week, with both sides agreeing to hand over as many as 6,000 dead bodies each, as well as sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war, and those aged under 25.

Medinsky announced that Russia would begin exchanging "severely wounded prisoners" on Thursday.

The dead soldiers were from various regions of Ukraine, including Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's co-ordination centre for the treatment of prisoners of war said on Telegram.