This was reported by the Suspilne portal, citing the head of the forensic medicine office in the Chernivtsi region in southwestern Ukraine.
The discovery in the soldier's body is a “first such situation”
“In Chernivtsi, a grenade was found during the autopsy of a fallen soldier. The body was transferred from Russia as part of an exchange. There have been previous cases of finding explosives, but for the first time they were in the body itself. The experts who performed the autopsy had to be evacuated,” the portal wrote.
The head of the regional forensic medicine office, Wiktor Baczynski, explained to Suspilny that the grenade was fired from an anti-tank grenade launcher and did not explode, but got stuck in the soldier's body. Previously, explosives in corpses transferred by Russia were usually found in the pockets of their clothes.
What was found in the body of the Ukrainian soldier?
Why were experts evacuated during the autopsy?
When was the last body exchange?
What was agreed during the negotiations in Istanbul?
The last exchange of bodies of fallen soldiers between Russia and Ukraine took place on February 26. The Ukrainian side then recovered 1,000. bodies. Ukraine and Russia agreed on the exchange of prisoners of war and the bodies of the fallen during the second round of negotiations, held on June 2, 2025 in Istanbul. The parties who talked there through the Turkish authorities then agreed to exchange all seriously ill prisoners of war and soldiers who are less than 25 years old, and to exchange bodies in the formula of 6,000. for 6 thousand
