1376 people killed and 317 missing in Kyiv Oblast since beginning of Russian invasion

The full-scale military aggression of Russia against Ukraine in Kyiv Oblast alone has resulted in 1376 civilian deaths, 317 people missing, and 190 taken to Russia.

Source: Andrii Niebytov, Chief of the Ukrainian National Police in Kyiv Oblast, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine news agency

Quote from Niebytov: "In total, 1,376 people have been killed in [Kyiv] oblast during the war. That's the bodies we have found and examined. I would like to emphasise that these are exclusively civilians since we, the police, are only concerned with civilians."

Details: "190 bodies remain unidentified," he said, adding that the DNA samples have been placed in the relevant database. "There may be some who had no close relatives among these 190. And if there are no first-line relatives, we cannot compare DNA. Therefore, unfortunately, there are bodies and unidentified persons," said the police chief in Kyiv Oblast.

Niebytov also reported 317 missing persons. There is no information about any of them. "We hope they are also in captivity somewhere, but given the way the occupiers have killed and tortured our people, we understand that they will be considered missing until we find their bodies," he added.

He noted that many of the bodies were severely mutilated, and it was challenging not just to identify but even to find their remains.

"The bodies we found recently were buried in pits where enemy positions were located. Most of these places have been examined, but we understand that if the occupiers buried the bodies deeper or threw them into the water, we are unlikely to find them all in a short time," Niebytov said.

Furthermore, based on the latest information, 461 Ukrainian citizens are on the territory of the Russian Federation. "190 of them are civilians from Kyiv Oblast, 271 are military personnel and representatives of other paramilitary formations of Ukraine," he said.

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