The Unified Register of Persons Disappeared Under Special Circumstances began to operate in Ukraine.
The Department of Communication of the Internal Affairs Ministry and the Ministry of the Ukraine Temporarily Occupied Territories Reintegration reported this.
As noted in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, tens of thousands of people were considered missing. The vast majority of them were found, law enforcement officers say. So far, about 23,000 people have been officially confirmed as missing under special circumstances — as a result of hostilities.
The Ministry of Reintegration noted that data on such persons will be entered into the Unified Register beginning 2 May 2023.
“This registry is a fully secured database. Certain officials will have access to it: representatives of the Office of the Commissioner for Missing Persons, employees of the National Police, and the Informatization Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Record cards are formed based on applications submitted by the relatives of the missing to the National Police. And the Office of the Commissioner for Missing Persons carries out the verification of each person directly,” said Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Leonid Tymchenko.
As reported by the Ministry of Reintegration, the Unified Register will collect and centralize data on missing persons, namely a person’s full name, place and date of birth, marital status, place of residence, the territory where the disappearance occurred, circumstances and time of disappearance, and person’s distinguishing features.
In addition, the register will also include information on the presence or absence of a court decision (recognizing persons as missing or declaring them dead), as well as other data that will facilitate the search.
The Ministry of Reintegration says that relatives can receive a record confirming the status of a missing person a month after entering the relevant information into the Unified Register.
“Based on the record, people will be able to apply to the Pension Fund to receive a survivor’s pension for disabled family members,” — the Ministry of Reintegration explains.
Extracts from the Unified Register will be provided by representatives of the Informatization Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
To get an extract, you need to contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a corresponding request and provide copies of documents certifying the identity of the requester and the degree of kinship with the missing person.
The request and documents can be sent
- by mail to the address: Kyiv, str. Akademika Bohomoltsia, 10, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine;
- or to the email: [email protected]
