21-05-2025
‘I wanted to show her how tall I'd grown': A Ukrainian family reunited
The masked assailants came to Yuliia Dvornychenko's home in Torez, a coal-mining town in Russian-occupied Donetsk, at 3am in early 2021, a year before Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Men from the so-called Ministry of State Security (MGB), a local proxy of Russia's Federal Security Service in occupied Ukraine, kicked in her door, put a bag over her head, and dragged her away.
