"A year ago, we could afford to launch 100 FPVs a day, but now that's no longer possible," the commander of a UAV unit told the BBC.

"We provide over $80 billion more in tax revenue to the federal government than the federal government provides to the people of the state of California. So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten 40 million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider withholding those resources," he said.

However, the Ukrainian side unexpectedly postponed both the reception of the bodies and the prisoner exchange indefinitely.

For some reason, their negotiation team did not even arrive at the exchange site.

Various reasons have been cited—many of them quite strange.

"According to the schedule approved in Istanbul, the exchanges were to begin today. Our representatives have arrived at the border, at the exchange point. However, so far, unfortunately, we do not understand why, there are no representatives of the Ukrainian side there, no delegation from them, no lists," Medinsky revealed.

"Families at home are waiting for their sons and husbands. Thousands of families will have the opportunity to bury their dead soldiers in a human, Christian manner. Let's do what people should do," he said.

"In accordance with the Istanbul agreements, Russia has since yesterday launched a large-scale humanitarian action to repatriate more than 6,000 bodies of dead Ukrainian servicemen and to exchange servicemen," Alexander Zorin, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said.

"Unfortunately, the Ukrainian side did not confirm the exchange today and postponed it indefinitely," he said.