The Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, which was hit and damaged by a small meteorite last year, left the International Space Station (ISS) and returned to Earth without a crew. Carrying the Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin and the US astronaut Frank Rubio to the ISS on September 21, the spacecraft successfully landed in the city of Jezkazgan in Kazakhstan with cosmonaut suits, 218 kilograms of faulty batteries, and 100 kilograms of garbage.
Russia has handed over the bodies of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers in exchange for 19 Russian soldiers as part of an agreement reached during peace talks in Istanbul.
Russian Vice President Vladimir Medinsky stated, “As a continuation of the Istanbul agreements, we returned 1,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers today and received the bodies of 19 of our own. May they all rest in peace in their homeland.”
The Kremlin confirmed that the exchange follows the second round of peace talks held in June in Istanbul. According to Russian state agency TASS, the transfer marks the beginning of a broader process to return 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies.
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