For families desperate for news, the fog of war is deepened by a complex bureaucratic procedure that straddles civilian and military jurisdictions and is often slow and unresponsive
went missing in a firefight near Lyman, in the Donetsk region, on April 19th. One of the soldiers in his unit saw him fall, but was too badly injured to get to him. The area, fought over for several days and scattered with bodies from both sides, was overrun by Russians; the Ukrainians could not even useto see what had happened, because of Russian jamming.
Anatoliy Ostapenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliamentary committee for veterans’ affairs, wants the government to do better. “If the state mobilises soldiers, it should have the responsibility for dealing with the issue when they go missing”, he says. Under current rules,who are missing in action are subject to the same procedures as missing civilians. The onus is on the family to report their missing loved one, and to keep track of the status of the investigation.
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