A year and a half after the start of the full-scale occupation, the exact number of Ukrainian soldiers captured by the Russian Federation is unknown.
It can be assumed that about 20 thousand Ukrainian military personnel were captured and missing. In an interview about this Focus said the wife of prisoner of war Elena Dobycha, who heads the Polygon 56 family association.
“We know that Turkish President Erdogan, who recently met with Putin, had previously talked to him about the Azov people. However, there are not only 700 Azov people in Azovstal, but also several thousand more. More than 20 thousand are considered captives and missing. And this “only military personnel. About two thousand were captured in Azovstal. At the Ilyich plant – about three. Around the city – about a thousand. How many were counted? Now let’s add Kherson. There are thousands of missing people, prisoners were taken out when there were attacks on the Kherson region. There is also the Kharkov region, Kiev, Chernigov, Donetsk, Lugansk. And these are talking about 5000-7000!” – he remarked.
Let us recall that on September 6, Andrei Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, said that Ukraine wants to extradite all Ukrainian prisoners from Russian captivity.
Read the rest of the interview Focus “Where are our men?” with Elena Dobycha, head of an association of families searching for people they lost contact with at the front. How many Ukrainian soldiers are in captivity and why is there chaos among search engines?
Source: Focus
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