“The largest number of wanted minors is in the Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Irkutsk, Nizhny Novgorod regions, Krasnoyarsk and Stavropol territories,” she said.

According to her, the main reasons for the loss of children are the lack of proper control in social institutions, conflict in the family, asocial behavior of parents, abuse, adverse living conditions and others.

The UK said that in 2018 the investigating authorities received reports of the unknown disappearance of 13,683 minors, and in the first half of 2019 - 8383.

Following the meeting, the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, gave a number of instructions, in particular, to work out the issue of creating a DNA database for the relatives of missing children.

Earlier, investigators opened a criminal case against the mother of a two-year-old girl who had been looking for in the Vologda region for two days.