Putin instructed to work on the issue of genomic registration of SVO fighters

Russian President Vladimir Putin, following a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (CDHR), has instructed to study the issue of introducing mandatory state genomic registration of Special Military Operation (SMO) fighters. The corresponding document was published on February 7 on the Kremlin website.

"Consider the issue of introducing mandatory state genomic registration of servicemen and persons of civilian personnel sent to perform the tasks of a special military operation or sent to the areas of a counterterrorist operation," the order said.

The deadline for its implementation is July 1 this year. It is specified that the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, the Federal Security Service, as well as the state fund to support the participants of the special military operation "Defenders of the Fatherland" and the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Committee of Families of Fatherland Warriors" should jointly work out the issue.

Earlier, on December 10 last year, the president said that the proposal to make it compulsory for servicemen to submit DNA material in the zone of the Strategic Military District would make it easier to identify "missing" soldiers.