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OSINT Confirms 2,577 Ukrainian Soldiers Held Captive, Commissioner Reports
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The captivity of 2,577 Ukrainian servicemen has been confirmed through OSINT methods, Ukraine’s Commissioner for Persons Missing under Special Circumstances, Artur Dobroserdov, announced on September 5.
“One of the key areas of our work is ensuring the proper functioning of the Unified Register of Persons Missing under Special Circumstances (…) In particular, OSINT methods are being applied, through which the captivity of 2,577 servicemen has been confirmed,” Dobroserdov wrote on Telegram on Friday, following a meeting with representatives of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism’s mission of independent experts.
According to the Commissioner, data regarding 680 individuals—among them 91 civilians—has not yet been verified by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Dobroserdov added that there are currently eight cases in which individuals initially identified as prisoners of war were later found among the deceased. In six of those cases, the ICRC never confirmed their captivity.
He underlined that this was already the fifth visit of an OSCE delegation to Ukraine aimed at monitoring the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Independent experts of the OSCE mission are expected to publish a comprehensive report at the international level by the end of September. The report will address Russia’s violations of its commitments to the OSCE, document abuses and human rights violations, and outline evidence of war crimes and other breaches of international humanitarian law.
Earlier, it was reported that a 33-year-old National Guard serviceman, Vladyslav, is recovering in a hospital in the Dnipropetrovsk region after surviving brutal torture in Russian captivity. He sustained a severe throat wound, was thrown into a pit with other prisoners, and then crawled for nearly five days before reaching Ukrainian positions.
