Overview

• The latest swap on June 20 marked the fifth prisoner exchange since early June under the all-for-all deal struck in Istanbul.
• Ukraine recovered 6,057 bodies of its fallen soldiers while Russia received 78 remains during the repatriation of war dead.
• President Zelensky said forensic checks identified 20 of the returned bodies as Russian nationals passed off as Ukrainian casualties.
• The June 2 Istanbul agreement called for mutual repatriation of 6,000 war dead each alongside the release of wounded and under-25 prisoners.
• Ukraine’s General Staff reports over 1,010,000 Russian casualties since the invasion and notes Moscow has identified only 15–20% of its fallen