ZAPORIZHIA: Before the war, Oksana Biryukova’s lab helped investigators connect criminals to crime scenes. Now her equipment is buzzing around the clock trying to identify the charred remains of Ukrainian soldiers. The DNA laboratory in the southeastern city of Zaporizhia is the only one in the country charged with creating genetic profiles for the unidentified bodies of Ukrainian servicemen killed in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists. “These samples arrive every day,” Biryukova, the chief analyst at the interior ministry lab said, nodding at brown boxes stacked in the corner of her gleaming white workplace. “The full picture-nobody knows it,” she …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
