In Ukraine, more than 7 thousand military people are considered missing, told the Supreme Commissioner for persons missing under special circumstances, Oleg Kotenko.
According to him, while the Armed Forces of Ukraine estimates the number of missing people at two thousand, the reception of the Commissioner received information about the approximately 7200 military.
“If we are talking about the military, we understand who the military is. There is an APU, there are National Guard, there are border guards, there are SBU, and these are different institutions. They are not included in the figure that the Armed Forces gives, – Kotenko explained.” For example , the Azov regiment is the National Guard, and there are also missing there. They did not contact their relatives when they left Azovstal.
According to him, most of the missing military are probably captured. They are listed as missing, since they have not yet got in touch and have not been included in the military lists for exchange.