In an interview with one of the domestic media, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk told that the search for the missing is an urgent and new issue for Ukraine. She reminded that the war has been underway for eight years. Therefore, the search for the missing has been going on since the beginning of the russian invasion of Donbas.
However, for certain time it was rather inactive: a responsible authority for this
area was commission unable to work due to inconsistencies in legislation."The Ministry for the Reintegration and I, as the Deputy Prime Minister, have been instructed to rectify the situation," Iryna Vereshchuk explained. "The relevant bill was received by the Cabinet of Ministers on February 24. It was just the document regulating the introduction of the position of the Commissioner for Missing Persons. Unfortunately, we did not have time to finish this work then, because the war started. Now we return to the implementation of previous developments".
The Deputy Prime Minister clarified that the work of the Commissioner for Missing Persons would be carried out in close cooperation with the newly established National Information Bureau (NIB), the main objective of which is to compile registers and centralize information on missing persons, prisoners of war, sick and dead on both sides. .
According to Iryna Vereshchuk, such databases are necessary in order to be able to operate them, involving the Red Cross, the UN and other organizations taking part in the search for the missing.
"We need to quickly institutionalize this vertical, because we understand that someone must do it," Iryna Vereshchuk concluded.
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