For three years his loved ones knew nothing about him. And when Oleksandr Shestovsky, a 43-year-old Ukrainian from Marioepol, was finally released by the Russians, they hardly recognized him. The man who closes his beloved Olena in his arms no longer looks like the Oleksandr who once left. Weakened, emaciated and strongly outdated. “It’s like I got my grandfather back,” she says.

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