This figure is constantly changing, as the whereabouts of some people can often be established, while others turn out to be in captivity.
“Unfortunately, we are identifying the dead among those who were considered missing,” Timchenko said, but he did not announce the percentage of such cases.
In May last year, a unified registry with data on missing Ukrainians was launched in the country. Initially there were the names of 23 thousand people; By July of this year the number had almost doubled.