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The convoy snaked through Ukraine ’s north-eastern Sumy region on a bitter February morning. A police car led the way, followed by a unit of forensic...

Convoy makes tension-filled journey into enemy territory for one of the only functioning levels of diplomacy left: the exchange of corpses

Away from the public eye and the bloody front line, Ukraine and Russia are still talking.

KYIV - Away from the public eye and the bloody front line, Ukraine and Russia are still talking.

Ukraine and Russia continue to maintain communication channels during the Russian military aggression to resolve key humanitarian issues related to the exchange of prisoners of war, the bodies of the dead, the grain corridor and the return of Ukrainian children from Russia.

Some 11,000 civilians and 15,000 soldiers are considered missing “under special circumstances” in Ukraine, Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Timchenko said on Ukrainian national television on Oct. 5.

On 19 September, the Cabinet of Ministers (the government) dismissed Oleh Kotenko, Ukraine's Commissioner for People Missing Under Special Circumstances, who recently announced that he would resign due to the transfer of his powers to other departments.

Ukraine's Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances Oleh Kotenko intends to resign after the Cabinet of Ministers made changes to the list of his powers.

The Federal Agency for Technical Relief of the German Ministry of the Interior will provide Ukraine with 10 refrigerators to store the bodies of fallen soldiers. — Ukrinform.

On 29 August, Ukraine brought back the bodies of 84 more deceased defenders. Source: Oleh Kotenko, Commissioner for Persons Missing under Special Circumstances, on Telegram Quote from Kotenko: "The bodies of servicemen who gave their lives for Ukraine have been handed over.