Despite little progress in recent ceasefire talks, Ukraine and Russia are stepping up prisoner swaps. The best part of these is often seeing families reunited. Special correspondent Jack Wright reports.
Safe for now. Marko and Yuliia Dvornychenko. Jack Wright
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.
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