Russia has returned the bodies of 1,245 Ukrainian soldiers, Kyiv said Monday, marking the final stage of a deal reached this month to repatriate more than 6,000 fallen troops. The agreement, which also included prisoner exchanges,

Russia and Ukraine reached a deal on a large-scale exchange of prisoners and bodies of killed soldiers, the only visible result from two rounds of direct talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

Ukraine says Russia’s military losses have topped 1 million, noting the huge price Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion