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Russia's announcement comes as Ukraine's top negotiator was meeting US peace envoys in Geneva.
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It comes as Ukraine's chief negotiator was preparing to meet US President Donald Trump's envoys in Geneva for a new round of talks aimed at ending the war which has entered its fifth year.
Two previous rounds of talks hosted by Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have included Russian negotiators, too, but have not led to a breakthrough.
Hours before the latest talks, Russia launched 420 drones and 39 missiles in six different regions of Ukraine, injuring dozens of people, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelesnky said.
Vladimir Medinsky, a top aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not give any details about the exchange of bodies in his short announcement on Telegram, but included an image showing bodies being unloaded from a truck. Ukraine has not confirmed the exchange.
During a previous round of trilateral talks held in the capital of the United Arab Emirates early this month, Ukraine and Russia agreed a rare exchange of prisoners-of-war.
The two sides have, however, exchanged thousands of soldiers' bodies over the course of the conflict that began with Putin's decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
The exchange is based on an agreement reached by the two sides during negotiations in Istanbul in June 2025. Moscow and Kyiv agreed to return the bodies of up to 6,000 soldiers each, as well as all sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war and those aged under 25.
Kyiv and Moscow regularly publish estimates of the other side's losses, but do not detail their own.
Zelensky recently admitted 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed on the battlefield - a figure Western observers describe as an underestimate as it does not include those missing.
And from public sources, the BBC has confirmed the names of almost 186,000 people killed fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine. The true death toll is generally acc
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