Ukraine receives in January record-breaking number of requests for missing russian soldiers - Coordination Headquarters for POWs Treatment
Ukraine received a record-breaking number of requests for missing servicemen of the army of the aggressor country, russia, in January.
This was announced by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War on the Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"A record number of requests was received by the "I Want to Find" project in January of this year. 8,548 requests for searching for information about missing servicemen of the army of the aggressor country were sent to the "I Want to Find" project by their families. This number of requests per month is a record-breaking: it is 22% more compared to the previous month," the message says.
It is noted that over the entire period of work, the project has received more than 60,000 requests for missing servicemen of the aggressor country's army, this figure does not include the killed and is 2-3 times less than the total number of missing russians, since not all relatives have yet contacted the Ukrainian project.
Of the 60,000 requests received for the search, 1,790 soldiers of the aggressor country were confirmed to be in captivity, 408 of whom have already been exchanged for Defenders of Ukraine.
The Coordination Headquarters emphasizes that the figures given are less than the real number of prisoners of war of the invaders, since they are based exclusively on those requests that were received by the "I Want to Find" project.
It is noted that the constant increase in the number of appeals to "I Want to Find" from russians indicates the huge losses of the enemy in Ukraine, which is not surprising, because more and more commanders of the invader army units are introducing the practice of "meat" assaults, sending cripples to the front lines, "zeroing" and leaving the wounded on the battlefield.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in early January, the head of the Secretariat of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Bohdan Okhrimenko, in an interview with ArmyInform, reported that the "I Want to Find" project had received more than 50,000 requests regarding missing russian invaders.
"I Want to Find" is a separate project of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, launched in January 2024 to facilitate the exchange of prisoners of war.