Separate Problems of Improvement of the Legal Regulation of Acknowledging Citizens (Military Servicemen) Missing and Declaring Them Deceased as Forms Confirming the Missing Status

The advantages of amending the law in the form of compliance with a mandatory condi-tion are substantiated — a preliminary appeal to the police about the unknown absence of a person, before submitting an application to the court for recognizing a citizen as missing or de-claring him dead. The problems of declaring military personnel and other persons dead in connection with military operations, due to the lack of a legal definition of the concept of "military operations" and the criterion for determining the date of their end, are shown. Ways to improve the issues under consideration are proposed.