In the aftermath of Ukraine's 2024 incursion into Russia's Kursk region, more than 300 Russian civilians remain unaccounted for — their fates suspended between war's chaos and a state that failed to protect, evacuate, or even honestly mourn them. Families, left without answers by the institutions they once trusted, have turned to one another, compiling their own lists of the missing and visiting mortuaries alone. The story of Lyubov and her mother is not only one of grief, but of a quiet, painful reckoning with the cost of misplaced faith — in governments, in propaganda, and in the idea that o
Russia's Missing: Families Seek Answers After 2024 Kursk Incursion
Over 300 Russians missing; civilians killed in combat and wartime conditions; bodies left unidentified in mortuaries for months; families unable to locate or bury deceased relatives.