This week will be a “truly historic” one for Ukraine, President Zelensky said Sunday, as it awaits a decision on whether it will be granted candidate status in its bid to join the European Union.
For nearly four months, the world has watched in horror as Russian forces have flattened Ukrainian cities. Images of slaughtered civilians in Bucha and Mariupol have attracted international outrage and prompted Western powers to increase their military aid.
All the while, a less visible phenomenon was taking place in homes, at checkpoints, during street protests: Russian soldiers were detaining and abducting hundreds — perhaps thousands —All over the country, people are missing. A schoolteacher who refused Russian soldiers’ demands that she speak their language. A volunteer paramedic tending to the injured in the port city of Mariupol. The father of a journalist, taken to blackmail his daughter into providing access to her news outlet’s website.
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