Over 1,700 children listed in Ukraine's Unified Register of Missing Persons – Ministry of Internal Affairs
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As of October 29, more than 1,700 children's data had been included into the Unified Register of Missing Persons in Ukraine.
The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Leonid Tymchenko, stated this on the air of the telethon.
As the official noted, more than 52,000 people are listed in the Unified Register of Missing Persons.
"If we specifically address the entries in the register, as of today, over 1,700 children are listed in the register of missing persons under unique circumstances," Tymchenko emphasized.
He mentioned that Ukrainians have the option to provide information to the registry through National Police units. Following this, the data is evaluated by officials from the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances and recorded in the Register.
As of September 19, 2024, 1,957 children are considered missing in Ukraine.
In addition, according to juvenile prosecutors, more than 2,238 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.
As of October 26, 2024, according to official information:
- 583 children died,
- more than 1,655 were injured of various degrees of severity.
Children were most affected in the following regions:
- Donetsk – 595,
- Kharkiv – 454,
- Dnipropetrovsk – 183,
- Kherson – 181,
- Kyiv – 133,
- Zaporizhzhia – 145.
For reference:
Earlier, Ukraine managed to return six more children from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region – two girls and four boys, aged from 8 to 16 years.
