Ukraine and Russia have carried out a new exchange of bodies of dead soldiers, Ukrainian officials and Russian state media say.

Ukraine said it received 1000 bodies and Russian state news agency TASS quoted an unidentified source as saying Russian authorities were given back 30.

"Investigators from law enforcement bodies, together with expert agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will soon conduct all necessary examinations and identify the repatriated bodies," Ukraine's prisoner-of-war co-ordination centre said on Telegram.

It thanked the Red Cross for its mediation.

Amid continuing military exchanges, Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly exchanged the bodies of the deceased, and this is the 15th such exchange this year.

Ukraine has received the bodies of more than 15,000 sold

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