In Ukraine, behind the prisoner exchanges, the anguish of families of the missing
Soldiers from his brigade informed her a few days later that Dmytro was missing following an enemy assault. His body was never found. Today, Kurakhove is an occupied town.
Since then, Tetyana has lived in this limbo – caught between a sense of loss and an inability to grieve as long as there's a glimmer of hope, as long as no body has been recovered. A civil servant at a pension fund, she waited for a sign of life, spending day and night combing through Russian propaganda videos showing captured Ukrainian soldiers, hoping to recognize her husband's face. She now only associates with women who share her fate in her hometown in the central Khmelnytsky region.
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