Rome, 8 June (LaPresse) – ‘In accordance with the agreements reached in Istanbul’, Russia ‘has handed over the first batch of bodies of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the exchange area’. ‘All have been identified as members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,’ said Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, representative of the Russian negotiating team. This was reported by Tass. ‘There are 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, many of whom have been identified, but all have been identified as Ukrainian soldiers based on their uniforms and the area where they were found,’ he said.