Nina Melenets buries her son more than seven months after she says he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine.
abc.net.au/news/a-ukrainian-woman-s-harrowing-quest-to-find-her-family/101757840Nina Melenets finally buried her son in November, more than seven months after she said he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine.Ms Melenets shows a photo on her phone of her missing husband Serhiy.
"We will know where he lies," she added, holding her hand close to a gas flame on her cooker for warmth.Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 and thousands more are missing as fighting rages in the east and south and front lines shift.
Villagers later buried him on the spot, they told his mother. Serhiy, 65, went missing at about the same time and has not been found. In Izium, people queued in the cold, waiting for their turn to climb the stairs to an office where their documents were processed.Once registered, relatives, including Mykola, went into the mobile DNA lab to have saliva swabs to be compared against the recovered bodies.
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