I Want to Find: March 2025 sets record for missing Russian soldiers reports

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported the information.

The I Want to Fond is a separate project launched by the Coordination Headquarters in January 2024. Since its inception, nearly 80,000 inquiries about missing Russian soldiers have been received.

“However, this number does not include the dead and is 2–3 times lower than the total number of missing Russians, since not all relatives have reached out to the Ukrainian project,” the Headquarters clarified.

They noted that in March, the highest number of search requests for missing soldiers from Russia’s 74th and 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigades, which have recently suffered the heaviest losses.

Last month, Russian troops most frequently went missing in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk region — 2,144 search requests — as well as in the Bakhmut district, with 933 applications submitted to the project.

“Only from the 810th Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, 141 soldiers who went missing in the Kursk region were being searched for in March via I Want Find” the report states.

For several months, the number of requests regarding missing persons from the Republic of Bashkortostan has been increasing. In particular, in March, 469 applications were received from residents of that republic — 30% more than in February.

As a result of processing the applications submitted to the I Want to Find, the presence of 2,057 Russian soldiers in captivity in Ukraine was confirmed. Of them, 529 have already been exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners of war.

• According to the General Staff, the Russian army lost 1,270 soldiers in the past day.