/ 12 February 2023

Forensics the key to missing and dead on old and new battlefields

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Ukrainian forensic experts describe the bodies of dead Russian soldiers, who died in settlements north of Kharkiv. ( (Photo by Ivan Chernichkin/Zaborona/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
The fledgling Red Cross Military Identification Programme aims to collaborate with non-state and state military groups to establish DNA profiling of combatants before deployment

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