Starting May 1, new offices of the Coordination Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war have opened across all regions of Ukraine.
These offices aim to facilitate access to legal aid for the families of captured and missing individuals, as reported by Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.
Employees from the Ombudsman Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are involved in the operations of these offices.
The primary goal of their work is to provide support to families of captured soldiers and the missing in accessing legal and advisory services.
Addresses of the New Coordination Headquarters Offices
- Dnipropetrovsk region (including residents of Zaporizhzhia) – Dnipro, O. Polia Ave, 2D;
- Zhytomyr region – Zhytomyr, Polova St, 6A;
- Poltava region (including residents of Sumy) – Poltava, Sobornosti St, 45A, apt. 1-4;
- Ternopil region – Ternopil, M. Hrushevskyi St, 8;
- Zakarpattia region – Uzhhorod, Pushkin St, 1;
- Khmelnytskyi region – Khmelnytskyi, Svobody St, 70, apt. 104-107;
- Cherkasy region – Cherkasy, Baida Vyshnevetskoho St, 17;
- Chernivtsi region – Chernivtsi, Heroes of Maidan St, 60.
Addresses of the offices led by representatives from the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Department on Missing Persons:
- Volyn region – Lutsk, Vynnychenka St, 21, office 10;
- Donetsk region (including residents of Luhansk) – address withheld for security reasons;
- Ivano-Frankivsk region – Ivano-Frankivsk, Konovaltsia St, 46;
- Kirovohrad region – Kropyvnytskyi, Velyka Perspektyvna St, 1, office 10;
- Odesa region – Odesa, Hretska St, 42, office 12;
- Rivne region – Rivne, Petro Mohyly St, 41, office 36;
- Chernihiv region – Chernihiv, Peremohy Ave, 74, office 607.
Advisory centers of the Coordination Headquarters also continue to operate in other regions:
- Vinnytsia region – Vinnytsia, Teatralna St, 15;
- Lviv region – Lviv, Sichovykh Striltsiv St, 21;
- Mykolaiv region (including residents of Kherson and Crimea) – Mykolaiv, Vadym Blahovistnyi St, 37;
- Kharkiv region – Kharkiv, Kosmichna St, 21;
- Kyiv city – Spaska St, 37.
It is important to note that the Coordination Headquarters has developed a multi-tiered notification system for families of the missing and captured individuals.