The Red Cross is looking for information about 23 thousand people missing since the beginning of the World War II

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced the search for 23 thousand people who have been missing since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine. The organization clarified that in two years it has received more than 115 thousand requests from residents of Russia and Ukraine who are looking for their missing loved ones.

“The International Committee of the Red Cross is seeking to clarify the fate of 23,000 people whose relatives have lost contact with them, either because they were captured or killed, or because they were forced to leave the places where they lived,” it says. message ICRC.

The Red Cross clarified that by the end of January 2023, the organization had helped find information about missing 8 thousand families. Two years after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, “the need for humanitarian assistance continues to grow in the region, both within and outside both countries.”

In accordance with the Geneva Convention, as stated in the ICRC report, the authorities of Russia and Ukraine have created National Information Bureaus (NIBs). They collect and transmit information about protected citizens, including prisoners of war and forcibly displaced civilians.

Read more about the organization’s activities in the text of Kommersant. “The Russian Red Cross has redefined the boundaries”.

Petr Buzlaev