Oleksandr Kononenko, representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Security and Defense Sector and Procedural Rights noted on September 30, 2022, that the Office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights had recorded about nine thousand cases of disappearance of civilians since February 2022.
Source: Oleksandr Kononenko, representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Security and Defense Sector and Procedural Rights
“We recorded about nine thousand cases of disappearance of civilians starting from February of this year. 2,241 persons were found. We can already say that 44 people were freed, and 97 people died. And only 170 people were verified by the International Committee of the Red Cross.”
A representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Security and Defense Sector and Procedural Rights stated that people with an active Ukrainian position were the most oppressed.
Oleksandr Kononenko also noted that the Russian Federation, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, equated Ukrainian civilians with prisoners of war, and among these people were ex-members of the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone (ATO), and Joint Forces Operation, former law enforcement officers, and even volunteers.
He specified that citizens who were in the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation should report the disappearance of persons to the National Police of Ukraine.
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