Posted on 06/08/2025 8:59:07 AM PDT by kiryandil
Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap.
“I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies of military personnel will also begin to move,” Lieutenant General Aleksandr Zorin said on Sunday, according to TASS news agency.
The transfer of “more than 6,000 bodies” was agreed earlier this week during peace talks in Istanbul, Zorin said, blaming Ukraine for failing to “confirm receipt” of other bodies of Ukrainian soldiers which Russia claims it transferred to an exchange zone on Saturday.
Kyiv firmly rejected the accusations, with Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, saying that his country was strictly adhering to the agreements reached at peace talks in Istanbul.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Conspicuous by their absence and apologia for the treatment of their fallen soldiers.
It seems this small facet of and footnote to the was between officially non-NATO Ukraine and non-NATO Russia does not interest them. On a related subject:
Ukraine has declined to pay holders of $2.6 billion in warrants linked to the country's GDP, defaulting on its sovereign debt payment, the Wall Street Journal reported on June 3.Seems defaults in more than one area are the order of this day.The country's Finance Ministry announced last week it would skip a $665 million government debt payment after failing to agree on restructuring terms with creditors.
Ukraine said in April it had failed to reach an agreement to restructure a debt consisting of so-called GDP warrants, a financial instrument that gives the debtholder the right to additional payments based on economic performance.
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Source: Ukraine defaults on GDP-linked sovereign debt payment Martin Fornusek and The Kyiv Independent news desk June 4, 2025
“Why is The Green T-Shirt Punk treating his war dead like so much trash?”
They aren’t much good as cannon fodder now that they are dead.
they won’t be able to identify 3/4ths of them...the families will never be paid...z doesn’t give a damn...
Get it through your head zeep, Americans don’t support this US - Russia war.
Deadbeats and grifters.
Owen is no Zeeper.
Press-ganged, then tossed like trash.
“Owen is no Zeeper.”
Riiiiight, Owen is very concerned that sanction won’t effectuate and do the trick against Russia.
Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed his pro US-Russia war content.
“Just the facts, ma’am” - Owen
that’s your response, really ?
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