Ombudswoman's office received more than 16,000 applications regarding missing Ukrainians/Collage of Channel 24
The Ombudsman's office is increasingly receiving complaints about missing Ukrainians. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, there have already been more than 16 thousand such people.
Lyudmila Denisova herself, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada, spoke about this. According to her, a quarter of the missing are people from Mariupol.
Most of the appeals concern the search, – Denisova
by 112 hits, as it was on April 20. However, the search for the missing comes first, and then there are claims of destruction and other issues such as humanitarian corridors or aid.
Most is search. We are already looking for more than 16,000 people,” Denisova stressed.
She added that, according to her data, there are military men (2,000 people) among the missing, and all the rest are civilians. A quarter of all the missing are residents of besieged Mariupol.
Also, as Denisova noted, cases of abductions are known: “People were sitting in the basement of a bombed-out house, orcs came, took them away, almost always without documents”.
The Commissioner for Human Rights explained that Ukrainians are often transported across borders where there are no Ukrainian checkpoints. “They are exported to Rostovsk, the Belgorod region and the occupied Crimea,” she stated.
