Her son was imprisoned in Ukraine for more than two months. Now Antwerp’s mother has finally been able to get him back: “It was intense. I will never do this again” | Abroad

Exactly on Mother’s Day and after more than 10,000 kilometers of driving in two months to and through a war zone, the Antwerp Renate Degryse (46) was able to hug her son Wessel De Winter (24) again yesterday at the Russian-Estonian border. “It has been intense. I saw hundreds of tanks – also burned down, or blown up – and thousands of soldiers. The paranoid soldiers.”