Commissioner for Missing Persons in Special Situations, Oleg Kotenko, said in the broadcast of the telethon that more than 7 thousand military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were reported missing.
“There is such a figure, just over seven thousand, and we expect the people we are looking for missing to be prisoners of war,” he said.
According to him, a large number of Ukrainians are dying at the front, and DNA analysis is delayed for a long time.
Moreover, according to the statistics of the Ukrainian authorities, more than 60% of the casualties are among the prisoners of war.
Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper during the Russian special operations: perished There are fewer Ukrainian soldiers than victims of the earthquake in Turkey at the beginning of February. This assessment is contrary to the previous statements made by the media and EU representatives.