@lb.ua Рідні зустрічають звільнених з полону військовослужбовців. Відео Інни Варениці і Зоряни Стельмах
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First of all, the soldier Anatoliy, a man in a wheelchair, attracts attention.
‘The first thing I'll do is call my mother and tell her I'm alive,’ he says.
‘When my husband was taken prisoner, our youngest son didn't even speak yet...’ says Nataliya, the wife of a border guard who was held captive for 23 months.
@lb.ua "Коли чоловік потрапив у полон, наш молодший син ще навіть не розмовляв...", - Наталія, дружина прикордонника, який був у полоні 23 місяці. Відео Зоряна Стельмах.
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She shows her husband photos of the children on her smartphone. Then they decide to call their eldest son, who is 9 years old.
‘Son, remember, I promised you a surprise,’ Nataliya says and turns the smartphone screen towards her husband.
‘Dad!’ the child's voice exclaims.
'Hi, son... Don't cry, everything is fine.
‘Dad, your voice has changed so much,’ says the boy David on the other side of the screen.
@lb.ua “Тато, в тебе так голос змінився...”. Звільнений з полону прикордонник говорить по телефону зі своїм 9-річним сином. Він був у полоні майже 2 роки. Відео Зоряна Стельмах
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In addition to adults, children were waiting for their relatives from captivity at the meeting point for all three days. As it was not known who would be released from Russian prisons this time, dozens of people came to meet the released prisoners.
'Thank you for enduring it all!' Hanna Korniyenko greets her husband. She and her daughter throw themselves into her husband's arms. The daughter, Milana, did not recognise her father at first.
‘He has changed a lot!’ says the girl. Her father was a prisoner of war for 22 months. He went to war when Milana was 7 years old.
However, Anna recognised her husband immediately. She gives him a small gift - a bracelet that the daughter had made for her father on his 35th birthday.
Another girl, also Milana, together with her mother Iryna, meets her father Viktor, who had been in captivity for 21 months. She leans against her father and looks at him lovingly from time to time.
Meanwhile, the mother is crying, hugging Viktor and kissing him on his skinny hands. In a few minutes, dozens of photos will pass through these hands - the relatives of the missing carry portraits of their relatives.
Thanks to this, Kseniya from the Volyn Region found out that her husband, who had been missing for more than two years, was alive! "The guys confirmed it. They say that he is in captivity, they have seen him," says the woman, tears streaming from her eyes.
This was confirmed by two soldiers released from captivity today: ‘The second person to tell me today that he is definitely alive!’
@lb.ua Родичі зниклих безвісти спілкуються зі звільненими сьогодні з полону військовими. Вони показують їм фото своїх рідних, сподіваючись, що хтось їх упізнає Відео Інни Варениці і Зоряни Стельмах
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According to Artur Dobroserdov, the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, more than 70,000 people, including military personnel, were actively searched for in Ukraine at the beginning of May.
