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Ukraine has received the bodies of 254 of its soldiers from Russia, according to officials in Kiev on Friday. Photos accompanying the announcement, which was made by the coordination centre for prisoners of war, showed several white lorries at an undisclosed checkpoint. The Ukrainian authorities said several ministries and institutions, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, were involved in the repatriation process. Of the returned soldiers, 221 had fought in the eastern Donetsk region, while others had been killed in the Zaporizhzhya and Luhansk regions. No details were provid…

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