Alyona Verbitskaya, the Ukrainian President’s Commissioner for Ensuring the Rights of the Ukrainian Army, said 15,000 people were missing. Transmits words Bloomberg.
According to Verbitskaya, most of these people were civilians. He also drew attention to the discrepancy between the number of confirmed POWs and the number of missing persons. According to him, the Ukrainian side does not know what happened to them. He criticized what he called “very weak” cooperation by Russian agencies regarding POWs.
Verbitskaya also described the interaction with representatives of the Russian Federation on prisoners of war as “very bad”.
Previously, Ukraine’s Ministry of Reintegration on the Telegram channel reported It was reported that the country received the bodies of 42 dead Ukrainian soldiers from the Russian Federation. Missing Persons Commissioner Oleg Kotenko noted that the work on the swap has not stopped.
Ukrainian authorities also announced that since Kotenko’s appointment, the country has returned the bodies of 869 dead soldiers.
Source: Gazeta
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