Too many reports from families that receive nothing. No word, no body, no money.
Sorry. This is not exclusively a Russian war issue.
Good you went behind NYT paywall. I did photo only as courtesy to non-twatters
From your source describing the problem for the Ukraine government regarding the cost of the missing.
“Delays only add to the cash-strapped government’s financial burden because families of soldiers who are missing, even if presumed dead, receive monthly salaries of about 100,000 hryvnia, or about $2,570, until the soldiers are officially declared dead. The cost of continuing those payments could run to potentially hundreds of millions.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/world/europe/ukraine-soldiers-mia-russia.html