Other families have had no news at all.
Across Ukraine, officials say more than 16,000 civilians are currently missing. So far, they’ve only located a fraction of them in Russian prisons.
Moscow doesn’t publish lists because detaining civilians with no cause is illegal. But that makes getting them back extremely complicated.
Forty-three men are still being held from the area around Dmytro’s village alone.
They include Volodymyr Loburets, detained at the same time, held in the same basements and then moved to Russia. He now has a new grandson he’s never met and a family who miss him badly.
“It’s hard. It’s really hard. We smile, yes, and thank goodness, I have a new grandson,” Volodymyr’s wife Vera says, as baby Yaroslav gurgles beside her on a play mat. “But I had a husband – and now I don’t.”
“The government says it won’t swap our relatives for Russian soldiers, so we are left waiting for the fourth year running until there is some way to get them back.”