The announcement comes after the talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul at the beginning of last week, where an agreement was reached on the exchange of prisoners of war.
The repatriation of the dead was coordinated between several parties, including Ukraine's security service, the military, the interior ministry, the rescue service and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), according to The Kyiv Independent.
The remains were repatriated from several Russian-controlled areas at the front in Ukraine, including Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Sumy, writes the newspaper.
Ukraine has also returned 27 dead Russian soldiers, reports Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's negotiator and advisor to President Putin, in a post on social media, according to AFP.
He adds that the two countries will exchange severely injured soldiers on Thursday.
“Tomorrow we will urgently begin 'sanitary exchanges' of severely injured prisoners”, he writes.
