relatives of missing Ukrainian soldiers create an association to find them

Valentina, sister of a missing Ukrainian soldier, thought her brother was dead. “The soldiers in his unit just wrote: ‘We’re sorry we couldn’t get him out.‘ A strike hit their position“, she says. But ten months later, she still hopes after seeing a video of prisoners broadcast on a channel Telegram Russian. “I saw that he was there, alive. I recognized his voice. I understood that we should not stop looking“, she testifies.

An NGO analyzes information published in open source

With other relatives of Ukrainian soldiers who disappeared in the same place and at the same time, Valentina created an association. These women hope that among the 230 Ukrainians released by Russia on January 3, some might know something. Families share every bit of information they can glean. With the International Committee of the Red Cross, they hope to push Russia to respect its obligation to share lists of detainees. HAS Boyarkain the kyiv region, the NGO “Group patriot” analyzes information published as open source by the Russians, such as a video of the interrogation of a Ukrainian prisoner.