Forty-eight thousand relatives of Russian soldiers considered missing in the war in Ukraine have submitted applications to the Ministry of Defense for DNA tests to make it possible to identify the dead soldiers from their remains. The number was given by Deputy Defense Minister Anna Tsivilyova during a round table discussion on November 26, which provoked the reaction of the chairman of the defense committee of the Russian parliament, who said that these figures should not be published anywhere. Independent news website Astra published a video of the meeting between Russian officials and parliamentarians, in which they discussed support for troops participating in the “special military operation,” as Moscow calls the military invasion of Ukraine, and their family members . Tsiviliova said 48,000 soldiers’ relatives have given free DNA samples to an Interior Ministry database. Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Parliament’s Defense Committee, responded as follows: “Anna Yevgenieva (Tsviliova) […]
Source: News Beast
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