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Ukraine buries unidentified soldiers as families await identification.

Ukraine buries unidentified soldiers as families await identification.

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July 16th, 2026

Ukraine buries unidentified soldiers as families await identification.

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At a military cemetery in Kyiv, a brother and sister stroll among the crosses, holding a bouquet of carnations.

ํ‚ค์ด์šฐ์˜ ํ•œ ๊ตฐ ๋ฌ˜์ง€์—์„œ ๋‚จ๋งค๊ฐ€ ์นด๋„ค์ด์…˜ ํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฐœ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‹๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Each cross in that section bears the same inscription: "Unknown Defender of Ukraine," beneath which an ID number and a note indicate that identification is ongoing.

๊ทธ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์˜ ๊ฐ ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€์—๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค: "์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ๋ฏธ์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์ž", ๊ทธ ์•„๋ž˜์—๋Š” ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ž„์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ID ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

One grave captures the eye: a photograph had been affixed beneath the epitaph at a later date, depicting Ihor Yalynych, a soldier last seen in the Kharkiv region in 2022.

ํ•œ ๋ฌด๋ค์ด ์‹œ์„ ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก๋Š”๋‹ค: ๋น„๋ฌธ ์•„๋ž˜์— ์‚ฌ์ง„์ด ์ถ”ํ›„ ๋ถ€์ฐฉ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2022๋…„ ํ•˜๋ฅดํ‚ค์šฐ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉ๋œ ๊ตฐ์ธ ์ดํ˜ธ๋ฅด ์–„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

After a four-year search, Stanislav and Oleksandra Yalynych finally located their father.

4๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ˆ˜์ƒ‰ ๋์— ์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„์™€ ์˜ฌ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ ์–„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ์น˜๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

Identifying the fallen is a pain that will last for years, and it is one of the longest-lasting wounds of Russia's war in Ukraine.

์ „์‚ฌ์ž ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์€ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ง€์†๋  ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์˜ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „์Ÿ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š” ์ƒ์ฒ˜ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ด๋‹ค.

Some graves may remain nameless forever, leaving bereaved families in a state of indefinite waiting.

์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฌด๋ค์€ ์˜์›ํžˆ ์ด๋ฆ„ ์—†์ด ๋‚จ์•„ ์œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ์•ฝ ์—†๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆผ์— ์ฒ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

For most of the war, there was a shortage of space to bury unidentified casualties.

์ „์Ÿ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์‹ ์› ๋ฏธ์ƒ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ง์ž๋ฅผ ์•ˆ์žฅํ•  ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The bodies were kept in refrigerated storage facilities, while the national military cemetery was still under construction.

์‹œ์‹ ๋“ค์€ ๋ƒ‰์žฅ ๋ณด๊ด€์†Œ์— ๋ณด๊ด€๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ ๊ตฐ์ธ ๋ฌ˜์ง€๋Š” ์•„์ง ์กฐ์„ฑ ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The first unidentified soldiers were buried in August, well before the cemetery was completed in January.

๋ฌ˜์ง€๊ฐ€ 1์›”์— ์™„๊ณต๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์ „์ธ 8์›”์— ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฏธ์ƒ ๋ณ‘์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์•ˆ์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Currently, over 300 bodies lie beneath numbered crosses, and additional graves are being dug continuously.

ํ˜„์žฌ 300๊ตฌ ์ด์ƒ์ด ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งค๊ฒจ์ง„ ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋ž˜์— ์•ˆ์น˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋ค์ด ๊ณ„์† ํŒŒ์—ฌ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"I was a daughter who greatly resembled my father, and I struggled immensely to come to terms with that loss," said 21-year-old Oleksandra Yalynych.

"์ €๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‹ฎ์€ ๋”ธ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ƒ์‹ค๊ฐ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ํž˜๊ฒน๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์˜€์–ด์š”," 21์„ธ์˜ ์˜ฌ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ ์–„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"For the past four years, all I ever wanted was to sit and talk with him... Now I am glad to have found him. Now I have somewhere to go."

"์ง€๋‚œ 4๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์•‰์•„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”... ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ฐˆ ๊ณณ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ์–ด์š”."

Ihor Yalynych was killed in action on the eastern front of Ukraine in April 2022.

์ดํ˜ธ๋ฅด ์–„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ์น˜๋Š” 2022๋…„ 4์›”, ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋™๋ถ€ ์ „์„ ์—์„œ ์ „์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He had begun his military service in 2015, the year that saw the outbreak of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea.

๊ทธ๋Š” 2015๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ํ•ด๋Š” ๋™๋ถ€ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์—์„œ ๋ฌด๋ ฅ ์ถฉ๋Œ์ด ๋ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋ฆผ ๋ฐ˜๋„๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€๋‹ค.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, he was assigned to a brigade stationed in eastern Ukraine.

๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ 2022๋…„ ์ „๋ฉด ์นจ๊ณต์„ ๊ฐœ์‹œํ–ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋™๋ถ€ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์— ์ฃผ๋‘”ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋‹จ์— ์†Œ์†๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He returned safely from his first mission and sent a photo to his son, but he did not survive his second mission.

์ฒซ ์ž„๋ฌด์—์„œ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๊ท€ํ™˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์•„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ „์†กํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ž„๋ฌด์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒํ™˜ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

After weeks of silence, Stanislav posted on social media that his father had gone missing.

์ˆ˜ ์ฃผ๊ฐ„์˜ ์นจ๋ฌต ๋์—, ์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„๋Š” ๋ถ€์นœ์ด ์‹ค์ข…๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ๊ฒŒ์žฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

An acquaintance discovered a photograph on a Russian Telegram channel, in which nine soldiers in Ukrainian uniforms lay side by side, having been shot, and among them identified Ihor Yalynych.

์ง€์ธ์ด ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ ์ฑ„๋„์—์„œ ํ•œ ์žฅ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตฐ๋ณต์„ ์ž…์€ ์•„ํ™‰ ๋ช…์˜ ๊ตฐ์ธ์ด ์ด๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ์ค‘์—์„œ ์ดํ˜ธ๋ฅด ์–„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹๋ณ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

When Stanislav saw the photograph, he realised that his father was among them.

์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ๋ถ€์นœ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.

The Ukrainian National Police in the Kharkiv region confirmed to the Associated Press that an investigation is underway into the deaths and identification of Ukrainian soldiers discovered in that area in April 2022.

ํ•˜๋ฅดํ‚ค์šฐ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ AP ํ†ต์‹ ์— 2022๋…„ 4์›” ๊ทธ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ง๊ณผ ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Ihor's body lay in the occupied territory, but it was only recovered after the area was liberated in September 2022.

์ดํ˜ธ๋ฅด์˜ ์‹œ์‹ ์€ ์ ๋ น๋œ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์ด 2022๋…„ 9์›” ํ•ด๋ฐฉ๋œ ์ดํ›„์—์•ผ ์ˆ˜์Šต๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The family had to undergo numerous bureaucratic procedures, including DNA testing, and it took four years to retrieve his remains.

๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ DNA ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ด€๋ฃŒ์  ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์•ผ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์˜ ์œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋˜์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฐ 4๋…„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

Stanislav said that if the police had not lost the case, it might have been handled more promptly.

๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ๋ถ„์‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋” ์‹ ์†ํžˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to his account, the documents were sent to the police station in Mykolaiv, his father's hometown, but were left unattended for over two years without any action being taken.

๊ทธ์˜ ์„ค๋ช…์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ธ ๋ฏธ์ฝœ๋ผ์ด์šฐ ์ง€์—ญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์„œ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด์กŒ์œผ๋‚˜ 2๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์กฐ์น˜ ์—†์ด ๋ฐฉ์น˜๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In response to AP's written request, the Mykolaiv police did not address the family's claims regarding the lost file or the delay, merely stating that no criminal proceedings had been initiated in connection with Ihor's identification.

AP์˜ ์„œ๋ฉด ์š”์ฒญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฏธ์ฝœ๋ผ์ด์šฐ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ ๋ถ„์‹ค ํŒŒ์ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ง€์—ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ˜ธ๋ฅด์˜ ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด ํ˜•์‚ฌ ์†Œ์†ก์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ ๋งŒ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Because the file was missing, Stanislav was only able to provide a DNA sample for comparison about six months ago.

ํŒŒ์ผ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„๋Š” ์•ฝ 6๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์—์•ผ ๋น„๊ต์šฉ DNA ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Two months later, the match was confirmed.

๊ทธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‘ ๋‹ฌ ํ›„ ์ผ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In Ukrainian military funerals, it is customary to carefully fold the flag that covered the coffin and present it to the bereaved family.

์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตฐ ์žฅ๋ก€์‹์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ด€์„ ๋ฎ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊นƒ๋ฐœ์„ ์ •์„ฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ ‘์–ด ์œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ด€๋ก€์ด๋‹ค.

However, in the case of an unidentified soldier, since there is no one to receive the flag, the state takes custody of each flag on behalf of the family and retains it until the soldier's identity is confirmed, stated Nataliya Kalmykova, Minister of Veterans Affairs.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์‹ ์› ๋ฏธ์ƒ ๋ณ‘์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊นƒ๋ฐœ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์—†๊ธฐ์—, ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ ๊นƒ๋ฐœ์„ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ํ›„ ๋ณ‘์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ ์›์ด ํ™•์ธ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜ํƒˆ๋ฆฌ์•ผ ์นผ๋ฏธ์ฝ”๋ฐ” ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์ด ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

"Commemorating those who gave their lives for the homeland is of paramount importance to the living," she said.

"์กฐ๊ตญ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ๋ฐ”์นœ ์ด๋“ค์„ ์ถ”๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒ์กด์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค," ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Thus we understand the price that must be paid for independenceโ€”in this case, that of our nationโ€”for the right to choose our own path and to enjoy democracy on this soil."

"๊ทธ๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์น˜๋Ÿฌ์•ผ ํ•  ๋Œ€๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•œ๋‹คโ€”์ด ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜โ€”์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด ๋•…์—์„œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋ฆด ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค."

She reported that the identities of three individuals, initially buried without being identified, were later established.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ์‹ ์›์ด ํ™•์ธ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ฑ„ ๋งค์žฅ๋œ ์„ธ ๋ช…์˜ ์‹ ์›์ด ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Kalmikova stated that part of the reason so many individuals remain unidentified dates back to the early stages of the invasion.

์นผ๋ฏธ์ฝ”๋ฐ”๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ด๋ฆ„ ์—†์ด ๋‚จ๋Š” ์ด์œ  ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์นจ๊ณต ์ดˆ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์Šฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Soldiers who enlisted in the first year were not required to provide DNA samples, so no database existed at the time; it was only established later.

์ฒซ ํ•ด์— ์ž…๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณ‘์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ DNA ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‚˜์ค‘์—์•ผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

A senior military official, not authorized to speak publicly, reported that approximately half of Ukrainian soldiers have now provided samples.

ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตฐ์ธ์˜ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์ด ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๋ฐœ์–ธ ๊ถŒํ•œ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ณ ์œ„ ๊ตฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

When no sample exists in the database, close relatives must step forward for identification, yet this is often impossible because many are in occupied territories, abroad, estranged, unaware of the situation, or have simply disappeared.

๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค์— ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์นœ์ฒ™์ด ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ ๋ น์ง€์— ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•ด์™ธ์— ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์›ํ•ด์กŒ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค.

Since the full-scale invasion, over 40,000 samples have been registered from unidentified bodies, according to Ruslan Abbasov, deputy head of the National Scientific Research Forensic Medicine Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

์ „๋ฉด ์นจ๊ณต ์ดํ›„, ์‹ ์› ๋ฏธ์ƒ ์‹œ์‹ ์—์„œ 40,000๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์ด ๋“ฑ๋ก๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ฌด๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณผํ•™์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฒ•์˜ํ•™์„ผํ„ฐ ๋ถ€์†Œ์žฅ ๋ฃจ์Šฌ๋ž€ ์••๋ฐ”์†Œํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Most of them have been cross-referenced with 170,000 samples taken from relatives.

๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์นœ์ฒ™์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์ฑ„์ทจํ•œ 170,000๊ฐœ์˜ ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์กฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Abbasov noted that the identification process often extends beyond the laboratory, with investigators attempting to obtain DNA through alternative methods, such as searching apartments or abandoned belongings.

์••๋ฐ”์†Œํ”„๋Š” ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ์ข…์ข… ์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ๊ด€๋“ค์ด ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋‚˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋œ ์†Œ์ง€ํ’ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ํ†ตํ•ด DNA๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

When burying unidentified remains, identification numbers are inscribed both inside and outside the coffin, and also engraved on the cross marking the grave.

์‹ ์› ๋ฏธ์ƒ ์‹œ์‹ ์„ ๋งค์žฅํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ด€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์™€ ์™ธ๋ถ€์— ์‹๋ณ„ ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์žฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฌ˜์ง€๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€์—๋„ ๊ฐ์ธํ•œ๋‹ค.

The registry contains detailed records of which specific number corresponds to which set of remains, so that if the number and DNA information match, the corresponding grave can be located.

๊ธฐ๋ก๋ถ€์—๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋А ์‹œ์‹ ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด, ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ์™€ DNA ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฌด๋ค์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The bodies are either transported directly from the battlefield or arrive through repatriation procedures from Russia.

์‹œ์‹ ์€ ์ „์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ์ด์†ก๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์†กํ™˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์œ ์ž…๋œ๋‹ค.

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War officially announced that Ukraine has received a total of 24,805 bodies since the invasion.

์นจ๊ณต ์ดํ›„ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด 24,805๊ตฌ์˜ ์‹œ์‹ ์„ ์†กํ™˜๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „์Ÿํฌ๋กœ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์กฐ์ •๋ณธ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Personal belongings may include a passport, military ID, or driver's license.

์†Œ์ง€ํ’ˆ์—๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ถŒ, ๊ตฐ ์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ, ํ˜น์€ ์šด์ „๋ฉดํ—ˆ์ฆ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, DNA testing remains essential.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  DNA ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋‹ค.

This is because there is no confirmation that the documents found belong to the body in question.

์ด๋Š” ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์ฆ์ด ๋ถ€์žฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

Forensic examiner Maksym Paziy noted that in some cases, the remains of multiple individuals are mixed together in a single bag, making even the process of collecting DNA samples considerably more complex.

๋ฒ•์˜ํ•™ ๊ฒ€์‹œ๊ด€ ๋ง‰์‹ฌ ํŒŒ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์—์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ช…์˜ ์œ ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์— ์„ž์—ฌ ์žˆ์–ด DNA ํ‘œ๋ณธ ์ฑ„์ทจ ๊ณผ์ •์กฐ์ฐจ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋ณต์žกํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The majority of the bodies are in an advanced state of decomposition.

๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ์‹œ์‹ ์€ ๋ถ€ํŒจ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ์ƒํƒœ์ด๋‹ค.

His branch, located in the Kyiv region, handles between 15 and 20 bodies per day, storing them under refrigeration until identification or burial takes place.

ํ‚ค์ด์šฐ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง€๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— 15~20๊ตฌ์˜ ์‹œ์‹ ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งค์žฅ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ƒ‰์žฅ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•œ๋‹ค.

He reported that the workload has increased approximately fivefold compared to peacetime.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์—…๋ฌด๋Ÿ‰์ด ํ‰์‹œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝ 5๋ฐฐ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Even if the war ends, there is still a great deal of work left for us," said Paziura.

"์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋๋‚œ๋‹ค ํ•ด๋„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ์ด ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ํŒŒ์ง€์šฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Identification is a difficult and lengthy process, and it will not cease even when the fighting is over."

"์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์€ ํž˜๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ธด ๊ณผ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ „ํˆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๋„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

For families, identification carries a significance that goes beyond mere procedural closure.

๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ์› ํ™•์ธ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์  ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹Œ๋‹ค.

Until death is officially confirmed, bereaved families cannot proceed with inheritance procedures or remarry, nor are they able to claim the compensation paid to the families of fallen soldiers.

์‚ฌ๋ง์ด ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธ๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€, ์œ ์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ์† ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์žฌํ˜ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์‚ฌ์ž ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง€๊ธ‰๋˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ƒ๊ธˆ์„ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค.

Abbasov cited the Western Balkans as an example, noting that even though the war there ended long ago, the identities of the deceased are still being confirmed.

์••๋ฐ”์†Œํ”„๋Š” ์„œ๋ถ€ ๋ฐœ์นธ ๋ฐ˜๋„๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋๋‚œ ์ง€ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์‹œ์‹ ์˜ ์‹ ์›์ด ํ™•์ธ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He added that Ukraine would likely be no exception.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜๋„ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

When Stanislav Yalinich saw his father's photograph at the grave, he felt an inner tension ease.

์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„ ์–„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ์น˜๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ฌด๋ค์—์„œ ๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ๊ธด์žฅ์ด ์™„ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.

"We are no longer the only ones who know that our father is there," he said.

"๋” ์ด์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ป˜์„œ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์— ๊ณ„์‹œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

After the photograph was made public, strangers began to stop and ask about him.

์‚ฌ์ง„์ด ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ ํ›„, ๋‚ฏ์„  ์ด๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌป๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

For Stanislav, this meant that his father's sacrifice had not been in vain and that his memory continued to live on.

์Šคํƒ€๋‹ˆ์Šฌ๋ผํ”„์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์ด ํ—›๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๊ณ„์† ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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Putin Meets US Envoy in Kremlin for New Ukraine Peace Talks

Putin Meets US Envoy in Kremlin for New Ukraine Peace Talks

C1Sep 5
China Tightens Information Control Following Floods on Nepal Border

China Tightens Information Control Following Floods on Nepal Border

China Tightens Information Control Following Floods on Nepal Border

C1Sep 5