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Ukrainians who have disappeared in particular circumstances are 62,948, according to a census

ARTOUR Dobrosserdov, the Ukrainian commissioner for the missing people from the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, announced that 62,948 Ukrainians, soldiers and civilians, were registered in the register of disappeared people in particular circumstances.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Health signed, on December 4, an agreement with the International Commission for Disappeared (ICMP), an intergovernmental organization which has its headquarters in The Hague (Netherlands), in order to create a large centralized system data collection intended to identify the missing.

The integrated data management system, which will be operational in the current of 2025, will allow you to cross data such as DNA, fingerprints and dentition with ante mortem (photographs, fractures, tattoos, etc.) and The results of post -dead exams of the forensic doctists.

The ICMP manager for Europe, Matthew Holliday, believes that in Ukraine “The main difference is that instead of investigating the missing after the end of the conflict [ils] investigation[ent] During the conflict “. Specific difficulties arise, such as “The scale of the conflict”,, “Access to bodies, whether in the battlefield or in the territories occupied by the Russian army”and the fact that “Many missing are soldiers whose body is not or only unidentified pieces”.

Besides that the organization of The Hague teaches kyiv how to collect the DNA of disappeared families at such a large scale, it takes care of “The collection of DNA of the Ukrainians of the diaspora”specifies Mr. Dobrosserdov, while 6 million people left the country at war and are sometimes without news of parents who left to fight.

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Source: Lemonde

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