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Ukraine struggles to identify thousands of soldiers' remains as relatives ache for news
Ukraine's forensic labs face a backlog from over 7,000 unidentified bodies received recently, with DNA identification taking many months due to degraded remains and complex matching processes.
- Ms. Anastasiia Tsvietkova has not heard from her husband Yaroslav, who went missing during combat near Pokrovsk a year ago, complicating her search for answers and closure as she waits for news about him.
- Ukraine's identification laboratories face challenges with a sudden influx of bodies, complicating their ability to provide answers to families.
- The Interior Ministry has expanded its forensic labs from nine to 20 since 2022, but processing remains remains time-consuming and may take up to 14 months.
- Efforts by the International Committee of the Red Cross to assist Ukraine include over 50 repatriation operations and providing refrigerated trucks and body bags for identification.
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KIEV.— It has been more than a year since Anastasiia Tsvietkova's husband disappeared fighting against the Russians near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, and she still does not know if he is alive or dead. Russia does not usually provide information about those captured or deceased, and there has been no news of combat partners or of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who sometimes visit the POW camps.If Yaroslav Kachemasov was indeed sh…
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