More than 15,000 people go missing in Ukraine

A woman cries and crosses herself after identifying the body of a missing neighbour, killed on the grounds of an industrial facility used by Russian forces in Bucha, Ukraine, April 4, 2022. [Courtesy of AP]

More than 15,000 people have gone missing during the war in Ukraine, an official at the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) said Thursday.

The Hague-based organization, created in the wake of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, opened an office in Kyiv in July to help Ukraine document and track down missing people.