KYIV/MOSCOW/BUDAPEST - Ukraine has received 1,000 bodies of individuals killed in the bilateral conflict from Russia, Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said Thursday.

"According to the Russian side, the bodies belong to Ukrainian citizens, in particular military personnel," the government agency said in a statement.

The repatriation was made possible through the coordinated efforts of the Ukrainian government agencies, with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Ukrainian experts will conduct all the necessary examinations to identify the repatriated bodies.

Russia, Ukraine exchange bodies of fallen soldiers

Meanwhile, Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky said Russia and Ukraine on Thursday exchanged bodies of fallen soldiers under the Istanbul deal.

"In continuation of the Istanbul agreements, another 1,000 bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were handed over to Ukraine today," said Medinsky, also Russia's chief negotiator at the talks with the Ukrainian side.

He added that 19 bodies of Russian soldiers were received.

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During their last round of talks on June 2, Russia and Ukraine agreed on an "all-for-all" exchange of seriously ill and wounded prisoners, and soldiers under the age of 25, as well as the transfer of the bodies of fallen soldiers.

Hungary bans Ukrainian officials over conscription practices

Separately, Hungary has banned three high-ranking Ukrainian military officials from entering its territory, citing their responsibility for "forced military conscriptions," Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said Thursday.

The officials - identified as the Chief of Personnel of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, the commander of the Western Operational Command, and the director overseeing mobilization at the Ministry of Defense - were linked to violent recruitment practices that have reportedly resulted in human rights abuses. Hungary has also formally requested that the European Union place the three individuals on its sanctions list.

The move follows the death of Jozsef Sebestyen, a 45-year-old ethnic Hungarian from Ukraine's Transcarpathia region, allegedly beaten to death by Ukrainian recruiters during a conscription operation. Szijjarto noted that reports by the Council of Europe confirm the use of "violence and torture" during recruitment in Ukraine.

International spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said that Hungary rejects accusations often made against it in the context of Ukraine. "We didn't strip Ukrainians of their minority rights, we didn't halt oil flows last year, and no Ukrainian has died from Hungarian conscription," Kovacs posted on the social media platform X.

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Szijjarto said that any breakdown in bilateral relations would be detrimental to Kyiv. "Hungary remains Ukraine's largest supplier of electricity, and hundreds of millions of cubic meters of gas are also delivered," he said. "If these ties froze, Ukraine would be in serious trouble."