Ukraine’s Commissioner for Persons Missing under Special Circumstances, Artur Dobroserdov, made the announcement in a Telegram post on Friday following a meeting with experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s Moscow Mechanism.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has yet to confirm the status of 680 individuals, including 91 civilians, Dobroserdov said.
“One of the key areas of our work is ensuring the proper functioning of the Unified Register of Persons Missing under Special Circumstances […] In particular, OSINT methods are being applied, through which the captivity of 2,577 servicemen has been confirmed,” Dobroserdov wrote on Telegram.
Dobroserdov revealed that eight individuals previously thought to be prisoners of war were later identified as deceased, with the ICRC failing to confirm captivity in six of those cases. This marks the fifth OSCE delegation visit to Ukraine to assess the treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
A detailed report, expected by late September, will highlight Russia’s failure to uphold OSCE obligations, catalog human rights abuses, and provide evidence of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law.
In one case, a 33-year-old National Guard member, Vladyslav, is recovering in a Dnipropetrovsk hospital after enduring severe torture in Russian captivity. Having had his throat slit and been confined in a pit with other prisoners, he managed to crawl for nearly five days to reach Ukrainian lines.
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