In the Unified Register of Persons missing in special circumstances, there are almost 60,000 people in the status of active search. Dmitry Bogatyuk, Head of the Department of Management for Persons missing in the special circumstances of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
According to Bogatyuk, since the launch of the register, it has been entered in information about more than 70 thousand people who were considered missing. However, about 60,000 people are still wanted.
"Other citizens are either those who managed to return home alive or, unfortunately, those who were identified among the dead," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
The search for missing persons is one of the key challenges faced by Ukraine in the conditions of a long war. Identification of persons among those killed and coordination of efforts to return living home require considerable resources and cooperation of various services.
