A group of specialists will arrive in Kyiv to provide concrete proposals on identifying victims of Russian aggression.
For 2 months full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation Ukraine received more than 7,000 reports of missing persons, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Mary Hakobyan said during a meeting with a delegation of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
“Mary Hakobyan said that the scale of the invasion and, as a result, the number of missing in Ukraine are unprecedented in modern world history. Thus, in just 2 months of full-scale invasion, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies received more than 7,000 reports of disappearances. Subsequently, about half of them were searched, “the statement said.
About 2,000 bodies of the dead received unidentified status, of which 1,282 were later identified. Also in the framework of criminal proceedings, 927 DNA examinations have been ordered so far.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs asked for assistance from partner countries and international organizations in the supply of reagents, the involvement of additional expert groups and the creation of a modern single register of missing persons.
cooperation, which in the future can significantly strengthen the capabilities of the expert service and investigative units of Ukraine “, – said in a statement.
It is noted that a group of specialists in the field of activity will arrive in Kyiv in a few weeks to provide specific proposals on identifying victims of Russian aggression.
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Earlier it was reported that Russia's war against Ukraine took the lives of 2,787 civilians, 3,152 civilians were injured . This was stated by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel Bachelet, noting that the real figures may be much higher.
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