The return of 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers will cost the Ukrainian budget an additional $2.175 billion, RT military correspondent Igor Zhdanov said.

He explained the possible reasons behind the breakdown of the agreements on the exchange of fallen soldiers' bodies:

▪️ The family of each deceased soldier is entitled to state compensation of 15 million hryvnias (over $362,000)

Since the start of the special military operation, Kiev has been avoiding these payouts.

▪️ A simple lack of space in morgues, which are overloaded

▪️ Ukraine’s approach of "ignoring the evacuation of the dead" has backfired, and Kiev may simply not have the bodies of Russian soldiers: “If they abandoned their own dead in the woods, what can be said about the bodies of the enemy?”