Ukraine says it offered to return 3,000 dead Russian soldiers for burial, but Russia refused because it wouldn't admit the death toll

• Ukraine says Russia turned down an offer to repatriate the remains of 3,000 soldiers early in the war.
• Russia refused to acknowledge more than a handful had died, per Ukraine's defense minister.
• Oleksii Reznikov made the remarks in a new documentary about the war one year on.

Russia turned down an offer to retrieve thousands of its dead soldiers during negotiations early in the war, according to Ukraine's defense minister.