More than 20 Americans have gone missing on the front lines in Ukraine. Over the past six months, the number of casualties has begun to rise: at least 5 foreign volunteers have been killed. This was reported by CNN, according to UNN.
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More than 20 Americans have gone missing while fighting on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months, as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country's defense, media reports say.
In particular, the bodies of at least five American volunteers who enlisted in the Ukrainian army could not be recovered from the battlefield after they were killed in action over the past six months. Two of them were returned from Russian-occupied territory to Ukrainian soil after lengthy negotiations.
Relatives of the missing volunteers told CNN about the legal uncertainty, as it is impossible to issue the relevant documents without official confirmation of death. They also faced harassment from Russian Internet trolls online.
Relatives of the missing Americans told CNN about the depressing lack of closure associated with not being able to bury their sons, the legal uncertainty associated with not being able to officially declare their loved ones dead, and the torment caused by Russian internet trolls harassing them online.
It is reported that due to the intensity of the fighting on the eastern front lines of Ukraine, the corpses of soldiers on both sides are often impossible to remove.