{"id":13406,"date":"2023-04-20T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:52:42","slug":"more-than-7000-ukrainian-soldiers-are-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=13406","title":{"rendered":"More than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers are missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers have gone missing under mysterious circumstances, Ukraine&#8217;s Commissioner for Missing Persons, Oleh Kotenko, said on national television on April 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, this number is a reality and may be over 7,000. We are looking to find in captivity the people we are looking for as missing people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistically, about 60-65% of missing people are actually captives, while the others could be dead, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exchanges of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine cover both those whose captivity has been confirmed and those who are missing, the coordination headquarters said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukrainian war casualties, however, remain much lower than Russian losses, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with Spanish TV show La Razon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that Ukraine&#8217;s losses were lower than the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria this year that killed more than 50,000 people \u2013 a comment he was forced to apologize for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers have gone missing under mysterious circumstances, Ukraine&#8217;s Commissioner for Missing Persons, Oleh Kotenko, said on national television on April&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,7,3830],"tags":[58,1156,1976,3395],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-science","category-research","category-war-in-ukraine","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13408,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions\/13408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}