{"id":23921,"date":"2025-05-07T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/with-tears-of-joy-and-anxiety-waiting-for-p-o-w-s-to-come-home-at-last\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:10:35","slug":"with-tears-of-joy-and-anxiety-waiting-for-p-o-w-s-to-come-home-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/with-tears-of-joy-and-anxiety-waiting-for-p-o-w-s-to-come-home-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"With Tears of Joy and Anxiety, Waiting for P.O.W.s to Come Home, at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The two sisters brought with them a chocolate cake from the nearby grocery store and put candles on it: two red hearts, and a neon orange 2 and 5. Their brother had turned 25 in April, but he could not properly celebrate his birthday in a Russian prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They brought along other things, too: a carton of Winston cigarettes, lighters, a bottle of Coca-Cola, some chocolates. The things that he liked, the things he had not had for so long. The sisters wondered: Would he still have his sense of humor? Would he still be the same?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And then they waited for their brother, Yurii Dobriev, like they had been doing for the past 18 months, alongside about 150 other people who were also waiting for their loved ones on Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, a couple hours north of Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The buses were coming, they were told, carrying 205 Ukrainian prisoners of war. They had just been exchanged with 205 Russian prisoners, the 64th prisoner exchange of the war, one of the largest so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are very anxious \u2014 whether he\u2019s really there or not,\u201d said Anastasiia Dobrieva, 31, one of Mr. Dobriev\u2019s sisters. \u201cWe just want to see him as soon as possible. It\u2019s incredibly emotional for us \u2014 we haven\u2019t seen him for a year and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Each person in the parking lot had endured a hole being ripped into a family. Each reunion would come only after years of pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One released prisoner would learn that his father could still bear hug him like he was a little boy. Another already knew that his mother would not be there; she had died while he was in prison. There would be tears of disappointment and joy and the occasional epic coincidence. In one of the other recent prisoner exchanges, for example, a female soldier was reunited with her son, a soldier who had also been taken prisoner. Neither knew the other was being held.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 4,550 Ukrainian prisoners had already been traded, a rare example of cooperation between Ukraine and Russia since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. But many Ukrainians who\u2019ve been released have reported incidents of torture, of starvation, of being forced to sing the Russian anthem every day. In interviews, prisoners of war have said they were told repeatedly that Ukraine didn\u2019t exist anymore, that their country had forgotten about them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war are still being held in Russian prisons; the Ukrainian government won\u2019t say exactly how many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On this Tuesday afternoon, many people in the parking lot came on blind hope alone. Maybe their loved one would be on a bus. And if not, maybe one of the former prisoners would recognize a picture. So they held photos in wrinkled plastic sleeves, often marked with a name, a brigade and a date of disappearance: The brother who disappeared on the first day of the war near Henichesk. The son who was injured in Kherson on the second day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for my son for so long,\u201d said Yuliia Kohut, 55, holding his photograph. \u201cYes, we\u2019ve waited and waited for him, for such a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the final list of prisoners returning on Tuesday\u2019s buses was made public, though, Vadym Kohut was not on it. His mother started to sob.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Dobrieva and Inha Palamarchuk, the sisters with the cake, had been told that their brother\u2019s name was on the list. But they knew nothing was certain, not until Mr. Dobriev walked off that bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Dobriev, a soldier in the National Guard, had gone missing in a forest in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine in late 2023. His sisters figured he knew something bad was going to happen. He wrote to them and to his fianc\u00e9, saying that he loved them, and then he went silent. They scoured social media posts and saw a video of Mr. Dobriev in subzero temperatures, barely dressed, his hands tied. At least, they thought, he was alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the months, the sisters talked to other released prisoners who had seen Mr. Dobriev. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed he was a prisoner. They learned his location from the last prisoner exchange: Returning soldiers had recognized him. As of April 17, he was in the Sverdlovsk prison colony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe guys told us that in prison the food is terrible \u2014 rotten fish, rotten cabbage,\u201d Ms. Dobrieva said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, the sisters learned he was on the list to be exchanged. They took an overnight train from Odesa to Kyiv and drove to the meeting point. At 3:21 p.m. Ukrainian time, the government office that handles prisoner swaps sent a text message to Ms. Palamarchuk: \u201cCongratulations! Yurii Dobriev was released from captivity,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two ambulances arrived first, each one carrying a soldier who could not walk. They were pulled out on stretchers. \u201cGlory to Ukraine,\u201d people shouted. \u201cGlory to heroes.\u201d The men waved, blearily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just before 5 p.m., police sirens could be heard in the distance, as the police escorted the four buses carrying the prisoners. The buses soon pulled into the parking lot, and the men poured out. Many were already draped in Ukrainian flags, after being met by other government officials near the border. Most looked almost identical. They had been whittled away in the Russian prisons, their bodies gaunt, their eyes hollow, their heads shaved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Serhiy Laptiev, 23, had been in captivity for three years. He said he was treated decently in the last prison he was in. He found out that his mother had died through a message from the Red Cross, but he stayed alive by thinking about his daughter, born just before he was taken prisoner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI had someone to live for,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t lose heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As he walked through the crowd, people surrounded him. Had he seen this soldier? This one? Most of the time, Mr. Laptiev shook his head, like when Ms. Kohut asked if he recognized the photo of her son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But her friend, Anzhelika Yatsyna, 52, was looking for her older brother, and this time, there was a fortunate coincidence. Mr. Laptiev had shared a cell with Oleh Obodovskyi for the past two years, in two prisons: Her brother was alive. She burst into tears, not the first time that day. She grabbed his hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI didn\u2019t want to let go, because he felt like a part of me and I was a part of him,\u201d Ms. Yatsyna said. \u201cI feel like he passed on a part of Oleh to me in that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then there was Mr. Dobriev, who tumbled off the bus into his sisters like a little brother. \u201cAll right girls, I\u2019m home,\u201d he said. He could not eat the cake or the chocolates \u2014 before being able to eat such treats, he would need to be cleared by a doctor. But still, the sisters lit the candles, so he could make a wish and blow them out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat do I feel? I have no words to explain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His sisters hugged him from both sides while he held the cake. They kissed his cheeks and wouldn\u2019t let go. Ms. Palamarchuk, 38, cried and stroked her little brother\u2019s head. \u201cLet\u2019s go call them,\u201d she said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s waiting for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">First, he called his mother: \u201cYes, mom,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m home.\u201d Then he pulled out a pack of Winstons, lit one and laughed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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