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The story starts with Nazar Daletskyi, a soldier whose family buried him on the strength of a DNA match — and who came home alive from captivity three years later. The paper examines how that could happen: morgues are overwhelmed, bodies wait for years in refrigerated railway wagons, and identification rests almost entirely on DNA, taking months or years.
Kateryna Androsova speaks as a lawyer who represents families of the missing free of charge. The article describes why she founded Names.ua — to remind the authorities that these bodies are people with names — and what the families run into in practice.
“Some of the mums I am working with have been waiting more than two years. They are having to do their own detective work.”
“If we had a normal identification process such as DVI used by Interpol, where a parent is told of tattoos, fingerprints, any scars or broken bones, she would understand, yes, it is her son.”
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