How many people in Ukraine are officially missing? They told the Ministry of Internal Affairs
55 thousand people in Ukraine are missing – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
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Currently, there are 55,000 people in the Unified Register of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances.
About this reported Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Leonid Tymchenko in an interview with “Ukrinform”.
“Most of them are military personnel. This figure is quite dynamic: when the whereabouts of missing persons are established, in some cases it turns out that a citizen, for example, is in captivity.
Unfortunately, we are also identifying the dead among those who were considered missing.” – noted Tymchenko.
According to him, the National Police received 751 DNA profiles during the collection of biological material from family members of missing persons who are abroad.
107 families were able to find their relatives among the bodies that were considered unrecognizable.
DNA collection was carried out in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Italy and Turkey. It is also planned to be organized in Switzerland.
As a reminder, if your loved one has gone missing, worth applying to the following institutions:
- National Police – 089 420 18 67;
- National Information Bureau – 1648 or (044) 287-81-65;
- Secretariat of the Commissioner for Persons Disappeared Under Special Circumstances – 1,698;
- International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine – 0800-300-155;
- Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights – 0800-50-17-20 or 044-299-74-08.
