Graves Without Names, Messages Unanswered: Ukraine’s Missing Soldiers Hint at War’s Bloody Toll
2023.02.24
Tetyana Dychko tried not to worry when her husband,
freshly conscripted into the Ukrainian army, stopped
responding to messages.
Yuriy Synerub, a 38-year-old electrician, had warned
he might lose the cellphone signal on the front lines,
where he was dispatched late last year.
“I hope everything is fine,” she wrote to him on Dec. 28.
No response.
On Jan. 4, a man from the military called: Mr. Synerub was missing.
Mr. Synerub is part of a grim cohort of several thousand
that is difficult for the government to keep track of and
even harder for relatives to come to terms with.
Oleh Kotenko, Ukraine’s commissioner for missing people,
declined to reveal the number of soldiers unaccounted for,
but said that 65% to 70% of them were likely prisoners of war.
Another Ukrainian official put the figure at more than 10,000.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/graves-without-names-messages-unanswered-ukraines-missing-soldiers-hint-at-wars-bloody-toll-fd4be493
우크라 대통령실 "전사한 우크라 병사, 최대 1만3천명"
2022.12.02
2일(현지시간) 영국 BBC 등에 따르면 미하일로 포돌야크
우크라이나 대통령실 보좌관은 현지 방송 인터뷰에서
"우리는 사망자 수를 확실히 밝힐 수 있다"며 이같이 말했다.
포돌야크는 "총참모부와 총사령관(대통령)의 공식 집계가
있었다"며 "사망자는 1만 명에서 1만2천500∼1만3천 명에
이른다"고 밝혔다.
포돌야크는 러시아 병사도 같은 기간 최대 10만 명이 사망 했고,
10만∼15만 명은 다치거나 실종됐을 것으로 추정했다.
https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0013619339?sid=104