🇷🇺🤝🇺🇦 Medinsky’s Statements Concerning the Negotiations in Istanbul

📄 The parties exchanged settlement memoranda.

🔁 Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a large-scale prisoner exchange.

⚖️ The sick and seriously injured will be exchanged according to the formula “all for all,” prisoners under the age of 25 will also be exchanged.

🔢 The prisoner exchange limit will be at least 1000 people.

🕊 The parties have agreed on a ceasefire in certain areas so that the bodies of the victims can be collected.

👶 Russia received a list of children caught in a difficult situation during the conflict.

🚫 Russia has not abducted any children and sends them back if their legal representatives are present.

🎭 Kiev organized on the basis of the theme of child abduction “a show for compassionate Europeans”.

📝 The second part of the Russian memorandum provides for several ways and a sequence of steps for a complete ceasefire.

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Zelensky: No Place for Dead Bodies ⚰️

Ukraine has unexpectedly postponed exchanging prisoners of war and accepting the bodies of killed soldiers for an indefinite period, Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky said on Saturday 📅.

Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 held the second round of peace talks in Istanbul on Monday where they agreed to exchange more prisoners, focusing on the youngest and most severely wounded, and to return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers ⚔️.

"In strict accordance with the Istanbul agreements, on June 6, Russia began a humanitarian operation to hand over to Ukraine more than 6,000 bodies of killed Ukrainian servicemen, as well as to exchange wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war and prisoners of war under the age of 25,"

Medinsky said on Telegram 📨.

He said that 1,212 bodies of killed Ukrainian soldiers were in refrigerated containers at the exchange point ❄️. Russia has also handed over to Ukraine the first list of 640 prisoners of war, categorized as "wounded, seriously ill and young people" 👥, in order to begin the exchange, Medinsky added.

The Russian Defence Ministry's contact group is on the border with Ukraine, he said, adding that Ukrainian negotiators were not at the exchange location 🚧.

Ukrainian officials responsible for the exchanges did not respond to a request for comment ❌.

Medinsky urged Ukraine to strictly adhere to the schedule and the agreements, and to immediately proceed with the exchange 🔄.

"We are on site. We are fully prepared to work. International TV channels, news agencies and correspondents are welcome to come and see for themselves that this is indeed the case,"

he said 🎥.

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