Other families have had no news at all.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Moscow doesn’t publish lists because detaining civilians with no cause is illegal. But that makes getting them back extremely complicated.<\/p>\n
Forty-three men are still being held from the area around Dmytro’s village alone.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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 \u2013 and now I don’t.”<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other families have had no news at all. Across Ukraine, officials say more than 16,000 civilians are currently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-140636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}