Marina’s brother and a close family friend have both been killed on the frontline in Ukraine’s east. Now she has had to say goodbye to her husband, Ruslan, called up to fight pro-Russian separatists in Kyiv’s latest conscription drive.
“Our family have suffered losses already. My brother died in July. [My daughter’s] godfather died in September. That’s why we are not afraid any more, we simply feel pain,” she said, bouncing five-month-old Valeria in her arms.
“It was either serve or go to prison … he’s promised to come back,” she said, declining to give her surname.
After a series of morale-sapping military …read more
Source: Voice of America
