At least 200 people have gone missing in the Kursk region, where military actions are currently taking place.
This information was reported by the Agency, citing the regional branch of the search organization Liza Alert.
“We can’t provide an exact number yet because the statistics are still being compiled, but we’ve received around 200 requests over the past two or three days,” said Olesya Partalyuk, the press secretary for Liza Alert in the Kursk region.
According to the Agency's calculations, 71 announcements searching for people from the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts, as well as from Kursk, have been posted on the Liza Alert wall in Kursk Oblast.
All the missing individuals were last known to be in the combat zone and have since lost contact with their families.
Reports of missing persons began to surface on Wednesday, two days after the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched their offensive in the Kursk region.
Partalyuk noted that only messages received from relatives are posted on the community wall.
The search for the missing is also being conducted in regional communities on VKontakte.
For example, in the "Overheard Sudzha" group, users have posted messages about 148 missing people, the Agency noted. Journalists have verified some of these reports and confirmed that those being searched for were indeed residents of the Sudzhansky District.
At a briefing earlier today, Artem Sharov, a representative of the local Emergencies Ministry department, reported that over the past 24 hours, more than 8,000 people have fled the border areas of the Kursk region.
The previous day, the department reported that more than 76,000 people had been evacuated from border settlements in the Kursk region.
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region, 106 people have been injured, according to Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, who spoke to TASS. He noted that 17 of the injured are in serious condition.
Additionally, 29 residents of the Kursk region have received outpatient medical care, and eight people have already been discharged from hospitals.
