After a planned prisoner swap failed to take place on Saturday, Russia sent hundreds of bodies to the exchange site and claimed that Ukraine was the one refusing to follow through. Kyiv dismissed the move as a stunt, saying no date for the repatriation had been agreed upon and accusing Moscow of playing “dirty games.” Ukrainian media outlets have described the episode as part of a broader information campaign, with the Russian side trying to suggest that President Volodymyr Zelensky is deliberately avoiding the return of fallen soldiers to conceal the true scale of Ukraine’s wartime losses. Indeed, Russian state media has been actively amplifying that very narrative. Here’s what we know so far.