3,400 Ukrainians are in Russian captivity, another 15,000 are missing

This was reported by the Presidential Commissioner for Ensuring the Rights of Defenders of Ukraine Aliona Verbytska, according to the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security.

"We do not know what happened to them (the missing). Whether they are also Russian prisoners of war, whether they were forcibly taken from the territories occupied by Russia, or perhaps killed long ago. Such uncertainty is especially difficult for their families," Verbytska said.

She stressed that Russia denies the Red Cross access to prisoner of war camps and systematically violates the Geneva Convention.

At the end of November, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that since the beginning of the full-scale war with Russia, Ukrainian National Police found almost 30,000 people who were considered missing.