As of mid-April, 37,301 Ukrainians were included in the Unified Register of Persons Missing in Special Circumstances. UNN reports this with reference to the response received to a request from the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances.
Details
As of April 18, 2024, the Register contains information on 37,301 persons who went missing under special circumstances
It is noted that the status of missing persons has been terminated in relation to 2014 persons who were included in the Register.
Addendum
Since May 1, 2023, data on missing persons has been entered into the Unified Register of Missing Persons. The register was developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the Commissioner for Missing Persons and other agencies.
The register will contain collected and centralized data on persons reported missing. In particular, it will contain information on the person's full name, place and date of birth, marital status, place of residence, territory where the disappearance occurred, circumstances and time of disappearance, and person's attributes.
In October last year, about 28 thousand Ukrainians were included in the Unified Register of Persons Missing in Special Circumstances.
Recently, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, reported that since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 , Russia has been illegally detaining Ukrainian civilians without evidence for 10 years and has not provided any information about them, in violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention.
According to Lubinets, Russia is not releasing illegally detained Ukrainian civiliansbecause they may witness its atrocities in the occupied territories.
The Ombudsman also noted that Ukraine is working to have a patron state to negotiate the release of civilian prisonersillegally held by Russia, which would allow diplomats from that country to have physical access to detained Ukrainians and ensure their rights.