Overview

• Ukraine’s state center for prisoners of war said 1,000 bodies were handed over and will be identified before being returned to families.
• Russia received 24 bodies from Ukraine, according to Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots.
• The latest handover raises Ukraine’s total recovered remains this year to more than 12,000.
• Ukrainian security services, the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor’s Office, emergency services, and the ombudsman’s office coordinated the operation.
• Separately, a FAB-250 glide bomb strike on Kostiantínivka killed at least five civilians and damaged four residential buildings, Ukrainian police said.