By Joel Gunter in Kyiv, Ukraine Image caption, Olena Kuksa’s partner was taken by Russian soldiers. “My soul pains,” she stated. “Not simply for my hubby, for everybody.” Vira Kryvoshenko kneeled on the ground by her front door and pushed her hands together in a prayer: please do not take my boy. It was just blind bad luck that Valeriy had showedup at the verysame time as the “evil spirits”, as she called them. He was in the town of Makhariv, providing food and medication to her and her neighbours – older individuals who might not, or would not, leave the Russians. Vira looked up. The Russian soldiers were a coupleof feet away, spray painting “V” signs on her vehicle, to prevent friendly fire when they drove it away. One of them – simply a youngboy, Vira believed, my grandson’s age – took out a walkie-talkie. “Poplar, poplar, this is padfoot,” he stated. “A carsandtruck is about to come, puton’t shoot.” Vira raised herself up on her walkingcane and spoke her prayer aloud. “Please do not take my boy.” In truth, Valeriy Kuksa was her son-in-law, however she called him her boy. The Russians were taking her kid. The young one raised his weapon midway. “Go back inside grandmother,” he stated. “He is simply going to aid us push the carsandtruck out of the driveway.” But they pressed him into the motorist’s seat of her vehicle and pointed a weapon at him, Vira stated. She willed Valeriy to appearance back at her, however he looked straight ahead and drove away from the home and out of her life. Image caption, Vira Kryvoshenko and her child Olena. Olena’s spouse Valeriy was taken away by Russian soldiers Stop in any town in the area west of Kyiv, where the Russian army terrorised the civilian population for a month, and you will hear a story about somebody who disappeared. A bro who went to take gas to a buddy and neverever gottenhere. A dad who left his home on an errand and didn’t return. A kid who drove away at gunpoint and didn’t appearance back. Before the intrusion, Maria Sayenko saw her daddy Mykola all the time – he lived a coupleof homes over in the town of Hurivshchyna and came almost every day to see her brand-new child. Then one day early in the Russian profession he vanished. “He left house and neverever came back,” Maria stated. “And noone saw him anywhere.” A neighbour stated he idea Mykola hadactually gone to the next town on an errand, however he couldn’t keepinmind for sure. His home was simply as he may have left it to walk to the stores. Maria submitted a authorities report through an automated service online and settled in to wait. All Maria understands is that her dad Mykola Medvid, a 56-year-old part-time automobile mechanic, left his home on 18 or 19 of March and hasn’t been to see her infant giventhat. “We went to the close-by towns and the ones additional away,” Maria stated. “He wasn’t at a pal’s home, at a checkpoint. Not dead, not alive. It’s like he vanished into th
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