The cheapest method for identifying the remains of SVO participants has been named

There are several methods for identifying the remains of participants in a special military operation (SVO), but the cheapest remains the analysis of a soldier’s fingerprints. The forensic expert of the regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), candidate of medical sciences Alexey Abramov spoke about this in an interview with Kommersant (Kommersant).

“This is the fastest and cheapest identification method, which is highly reliable. Moreover, we don’t need post-mortem fingerprints of all ten fingers—two or three are enough, and in some cases one,” Abramov noted.

According to the specialist, this identification method has one problem - the incompleteness of the fingerprint database. It is due to the fact that the law obliging contract soldiers to submit fingerprints when enlisting in the Russian army was adopted only in 2023, which is why some military personnel may not be covered by this procedure, Abramov explained.