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Ukrainian Proposal to Trade WWII Corpses for Living Prisoners is Beyond the Pale - Ex-DoD Analyst
Ukrainian Proposal to Trade WWII Corpses for Living Prisoners is Beyond the Pale - Ex-DoD Analyst
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The callousness of the Ukrainian offer to exchange the exhumed remains of Russian WWII soldiers for Ukrainian military prisoners is “hard to imagine,” former US Department of Defense analyst Karen Kwiatkowsky told Sputnik.
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“It also suggests that there are not enough current Russian soldiers dead or captured to match those Ukrainians dead or held as POWs by Russia,” Kwiatkowski notes.This offer, and other similar acts perpetrated by the Ukrainian side, “ensure Ukraine’s future will even more impoverished, less free, and even more widely held in contempt by the world community.”Kwiatkoswki also lamented the West’s inability to “get its data and intelligence right regarding Ukraine,” and argued that “such willful ignorance on the US and NATO side kills more Ukrainians, and degrades Ukraine as desperate acts and offers such as this one become normalized.”This week, Ukraine’s Lvov mayor Andriy Sadovy proposed trading the exhumed remains of Soviet soldiers, originally buried at the "Hill of Glory" memorial complex in the city, for Ukrainian POWs.
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Ukrainian Proposal to Trade WWII Corpses for Living Prisoners is Beyond the Pale - Ex-DoD Analyst
16:13 GMT 17.07.2025 (Updated: 16:23 GMT 17.07.2025) The callousness of the Ukrainian offer to exchange the exhumed remains of Russian WWII soldiers for Ukrainian military prisoners is “hard to imagine,” former US Department of Defense analyst Karen Kwiatkowsky told Sputnik.
“It also suggests that there are not enough current Russian soldiers dead or captured to match those Ukrainians dead or held as POWs by Russia,” Kwiatkowski notes.
This offer, and other similar acts perpetrated by the Ukrainian side, “ensure Ukraine’s future will even more impoverished, less free, and even more widely held in contempt by the world community.”
Kwiatkoswki also lamented the West’s inability to “get its data and intelligence right regarding Ukraine,” and argued that “such willful ignorance on the US and NATO side kills more Ukrainians, and degrades Ukraine as desperate acts and offers such as this one become normalized.”
This week, Ukraine’s Lvov mayor Andriy Sadovy proposed trading the exhumed remains of Soviet soldiers, originally buried at the "Hill of Glory" memorial complex in the city, for Ukrainian POWs.
