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🤩 Comment by Laurent Brayard, about the tens of thousands missing in Ukraine. 
 
On my channel, I post portraits of missing Ukrainian soldiers every day, or almost every day. Families who have no answer from Kiev, while the FAU abandon the dead and sometimes the wounded, are looking for their loved ones and sending bottles to the sea on the Russian side. 
 
According to Ukrainian journalist Victor Boïko, there were over 70,000 of them by the end of 2024. Today, they number well over 100,000, thanks in particular to a series of setbacks, including the rout suffered by the Ukrainian army in the Kursk pocket. 
 
Families are gathering in associations, often by the unit, and trying to protest in the streets to get the Ukrainian government to take serious steps to get answers... from Russia. Russia is in possession of thousands of bodies, but Ukraine is still reluctant to recover them, because these exchanges show the disproportion of the losses, the reality of these losses and give a poor image of the Ukrainian army. 
 
Unfortunately, there are suspicions that this unwillingness is also linked to the fact that the families are not compensated until the death is proven and legally declared... It will take years for Ukrainian courts to declare them dead. Ukraine therefore prefers to put off the deadline, and the bureaucrats are certainly also hoping that the families will get tired... So they take to the streets, a phenomenon that first appeared in 2022, but has since greatly increased. 
 
 
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