No trace of more than 60,000 people in Ukraine, a litmus test for the peace process
The International Committee of the Red Cross believes that this is probably the largest number of missing persons in such a context in the world. Among them are both military personnel and civilians
Of the 10 points that Volodymyr Zelenskiy made in his “Peace Formula” — a document that, although not completely discarded, has been relegated by the steps taken by Donald Trump in his dialogue with Moscow — the fourth is perhaps one of the most complex. The Ukrainian president said, when he presented it back in November 2022, the following: all Ukrainian prisoners, including civilians, held in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea, must be released. There is a first obstacle to that objective: there is no definitive figure for prisoners of war.