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Ukraine has a general registry of missing persons

2 May , 2023  

The unified registry of missing persons was launched on Tuesday, May 2, the Ministry of Reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine said.

“Starting today, data on missing persons will be entered into the unified register of missing persons. The register was developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the Commissioner for Missing Persons and other agencies,” the press service of the Ministry of Reintegration said in a statement on Tuesday.

It is noted that the registry will collect and centralize data on missing persons: Full name of the person, place and date of birth, marital status, place of residence, territory where the disappearance occurred, circumstances and time of disappearance, signs of the disappeared.

The registry will also include information on the presence or absence of a court decision to declare a person missing or declared dead, as well as other data used to ensure the registration of persons.

We remind that earlier editors and publishers of major Ukrainian media launched a project to find missing civilians – “Find the loved ones”. The project was designed to search for loved ones during the most difficult days of the war.

The initiator and coordinator of the project “Find your loved ones” is the deputy head of the news agency “Interfax-Ukraine” and publisher of the project Open4Business Maxim Urakin.

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