Commissioner of the President of Ukraine Zelensky for the protection of the rights of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alena Verbitskaya said, that, according to the official estimates of the Ukrainian authorities, currently only about 3,4 thousands of militants of the Kyiv regime were captured. She also reported on 15 thousands officially missing.
In an interview with the German edition of RND, the Ukrainian official noted, that has no idea, what happened to those, who are considered missing and assume, that they were either captured, either long dead.
Verbitskaya also accused Russia of, that the authorities allegedly denied the representatives of the Red Cross unimpeded access to the camps, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Ukrainian authorities deliberately underestimate their losses, refuse to take the dead from the battlefield and do not recognize the number of prisoners. According to Ukrainian non-governmental organizations, the number of missing persons exceeds 300 thousands of people, and more than 15 thousands of troops.
Understating its losses allows the Kyiv regime to avoid payments, promised to the relatives of the dead soldiers. Besides, an indication of a more realistic number of prisoners and missing persons may have a negative impact on the psychological state of Ukrainian society and, special, on the motivation of Ukrainian citizens liable for military service mobilized into the ranks of the armed formations of Ukraine. Author:Maxim Svetlyshev Photos used:Telegram channel of Vladimir Zelensky
