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The Economist
The Economist
10 Oct 2024


NextImg:The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
Europe | Alive or dead?

The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors

The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead

|KYIV

IN A NONDESCRIPT office in a nondescript building in Kyiv, with no sign on its door, four middle-aged men are trawling through gruesome films and photos on the internet. Often they are looking at Russian Telegram channels that specialise in parading captured Ukrainian soldiers. In pictures taken in the past few days one man’s face is running with blood; another has his hands tied but a cigarette is in his mouth. A third, seemingly wounded, is being pushed in a wheelbarrow. These Ukrainian policemen are cyber-hunters searching for Ukraine’s missing soldiers, of whom there are tens of thousands.

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Where are they?”

Ukrainian soldiers of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion during weapons training in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine

But it is encountering growing problems


A man looks at foreign currency exchange rates in Istanbul

Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation

High interest rates are starting to do the trick


Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse

Matteo Salvini is making feeble excuses

France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss

A fragile new government must try to plug the hole. Fast