The exchange took place at the “Novaya Guta” checkpoint on the Belarus–Ukraine border.

Kyiv received the bodies of 252 eliminated AFU militants. In return, the bodies of 23 fallen Russian soldiers were handed over to Russian representatives.

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This gap has already been repeating in every exchange procedure. In total, since the beginning of 2026, Kyiv has taken back more than 5,000 bodies of its servicemen, while about 270 of the dead were returned to Russia. The overall annual exchange ratio has settled at 19 to 1: for every fallen Russian Armed Forces soldier, there are almost twenty destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.