Posted on 06/07/2025 1:44:04 PM PDT by McGruff
A planned exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war failed to take place on Saturday, with Moscow accusing Kyiv of postponing the swap at the last minute, something Ukrainian officials dismissed as “dirty games” from the Kremlin.
Russia said Ukraine unexpectedly postponed a transfer involving prisoners of war and the bodies of dead soldiers, leaving more than 1,200 frozen Ukrainian bodies waiting in refrigerated trucks at an exchange point with no one to collect them.
Ukraine rejected Russia’s account of the events, saying that the two sides had agreed to exchange seriously wounded and young troops on Saturday but a date had not yet been set for the repatriation of soldiers’ bodies.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The USA will never learn to stay out of these squabbles. These people have been fighting for centuries and, like in the ME, anyone who gets involved will find only tears and sorrow.
From a Serbian blogger:
The Ukrainian side refuses to accept the bodies of 6,000 fallen soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces, which have already been delivered for transfer‼️
According to the statement of Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian negotiating team, the first batch of frozen bodies of soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces, 1,212 of them, has already arrived in refrigerated trucks to the exchange site. The rest are on their way. The Ukrainian side unexpectedly postponed for an indefinite period both the acceptance of the bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war. 👇
While at first glance it may seem that this is just another case of irresponsible behavior by Kiev, the situation may be significantly different and related to economic issues and the prospects of internal destabilization.
According to the currently valid Kiev legislation regulating the conditions for fulfilling military service, the families of fallen soldiers are entitled to financial compensation for each member on the list of those killed.
For 6,000 dead, the total figure Kiev would have to pay would be $2.1 billion, which, given its absolute dependence on external funding, could be a painful blow to an already questionable budget. 👇
The situation, however, could have wider social consequences — if it turns out that among the 6,000 bodies are soldiers who are formally registered as missing or deserters (and whose families, therefore, are not entitled to compensation), the public may wonder whether this is also the case with the 90,000 names on the list of deserters.
If this topic were to become public, Kiev could face a possible expense of $31.5 billion in compensation to families — a figure it simply does not have, and an expense that the collective West has no intention of financing.
Therefore, for the Kiev regime, ignoring the 6,000 bodies in the morgues of the Bryansk region at this time may seem like the easiest way to avoid uncomfortable public questions that, without good answers, could escalate into an explosion of popular discontent that is already at a high level.
Ukraine’s shame: Why Kiev refuses to take back its dead and wounded
https://www.rt.com/russia/618778-ukraine-pow-swap-dead/
Zelensky thinking money over morality.
It would cost him too much money to have to pay the Uke families.
Russia should demand that the Red Cross accept these bodies.
They should leaflet the country with the names and units of the dead.
Such a miserable way to treat the dead fallen in battle as ordered by Zelensky.
There are many vloggers inside Russia. I have posted links before of an Australian whose specialty seems to be grocery stores.
Not the most interesting of topics, but it is clear there is no scarcity and . . . another thing I had not thought of before.
In all those videos I have yet to see women shopping for food who are wearing mourning black. They may be there, but if there were the kind of numbers we hear spoken of, they would have been so common that they could not escape notice.
We are being lied to by our media.
There’ no honor in Ukraine these days.
Thank God - the Ukrainian prisoners will live a little longer, being unavailable for press-ganging back to the front.
Nobody seems to be able to avoid squabbles lately. Yawn.............💤💤💤
Sure are a lot of dead bodies that the Russians have...
The neocons had no problem breaking us financially and they had no problem sending Ukes into the meat grinder.
All we can say is that it would have been US blood shed in this war, along with a contingent of flimsy Euro/UK troops schlepping into the meat grinder . But it wasn’t because the dirtbags couldn’t have gotten re-elected when their citizens are burying their family members.
Globalist think is meh, who cares, they are just Ukrainians and they are expendable anyway. The whole thing gave Linda Graham an ahem....excite, thinking about it.
Once again, Zelinsky throws a wrench into the situation.
Post war analysis will be stunning. 7 dead Ukies to 1 dead Russian- about right going merely by historical war casualty records, Russia now holds a 15:1 artillery advantage…the amount of Russian artillery rounds expended has broken all records since WW2.
“7 dead Ukies to 1 dead Russian”
GEEZ. Is there anything you post that is not a lie?
Rebutting claims from some Western lawmakers that Russia holds “all the cards” in the war in Ukraine, the CSIS study used Russian casualty figures – as well as estimates of its heavy equipment losses and sluggish territorial gains – as evidence that Moscow’s military “has performed relatively poorly on the battlefield” and failed to achieve its main war goals
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/europe/russia-war-casualties-1-million-ukraine-intl
“the amount of Russian artillery rounds expended has broken all records since WW2.”
Three and one-half years into a two-week war!
Putin has depleted their pension/reserve fund.
They are raising the retirement age to 65.
The average life expectancy for men is 64 ...
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