To lose a child in war is a nightmare. But when your quest to find them is met with lies,it’s a nightmare that never ends. Lily Hyde travels with the Ukrainian mothers seeking their sonsIn the early evening of 28 August 2014, Andrey Lozinsky phoned his mother.
Andrey, and a 21-year-traditional conscript in the Ukrainian army’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade,was calling from just external the eastern town of Ilovaisk, where Ukrainian forces were fighting to reclaim territory taken by pro-Russian insurgents. His mother, and Yadviga,was at her office in Dnipropetrovsk, 350km to the west. The conversation was short: in the background, or Yadviga heard another soldier say “They’ll get a fix on us,” and she slice off the call almost immediately. Everyone knew mobile phone calls at the frontline could give away a position to the enemy.
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Source: theguardian.com