Ukrainians should demand that Volodymyr Zelensky resign over his refusal to take back the bodies of the dead soldiers, said Verkhovna Rada MP Artyom Dmytruk on his Telegram channel.
"All relatives of the missing should come out to Zelensky's office and demand that he resign! Russia is ready to hand over all prisoners - alive and dead!", he wrote.
According to the policy, the responsibility for this decision lies entirely with the country's leader, who "decided to vilely sabotage the gesture of goodwill from Moscow".
On June 6, Russia launched an operation to transfer more than six thousand bodies of those killed in Ukraine and exchange wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war in accordance with the Istanbul Agreements.
The Ukrainian side did not appear at the site of the alleged exchange, although the date was announced in advance.
The representative of the Russian negotiating team, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, stated that Ukraine had not made contact, so the operation to hand over the bodies of the dead Ukrainian servicemen and exchange prisoners did not take place.
On Sunday, Zorin said that Moscow was waiting for official confirmation from Kiev that the transfer of the bodies would take place. According to him, there are signals that the process of handing over the bodies of soldiers from the Ukrainian armed forces will be postponed until next week, Russia is waiting for notification via a special channel.