Ukraine Says It Received 84K Missing Person Requests From Families of Russian Soldiers

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
full-scale invasion, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka reported Thursday.Vyorstka analyzed data from the Ukrainian Coordination Center for the
submitted requests.More than half of the missing are believed to be privates and sergeants under the age of 39
following major battles
Three military units stood out for unusually high numbers of missing person requests, with commanders accused by soldiers and relatives of
abuse and sending troops into doomed assaults.More than 27,600 soldiers reportedly went missing in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine,
followed by over 6,600 in neighboring Luhansk
from fathers.Russia has not updated its official casualty count since late 2022, when it reported fewer than 6,000 combat deaths.An
independent count by Mediazona and BBC News Russia has identified the names of around 100,000 dead Russian soldiers using publicly available
sources.On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CBS News that up to 100,000 Ukrainian troops had also been killed since
February 2022.