More than 15,000 people missing in war in Ukraine, says official

FILE PHOTO: A man place a poster advertisement about a missing person, at site of a Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine July 15, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

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

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