SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Peering out over the faded fence in front of her modest cottage, Maria Vasylovna Pichko wonders if her son is “somewhere out there.”
“In my heart I believe he is,” says the 61-year-old, wiping tears from her eyes.
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It’s been almost eight months since she last saw her 31-year-old son Alexei Borisovich Pichko. Pro-Russian rebel gunmen came one day last June and dragged him off. She hasn’t seen him since.
Maria Pichko weeps as she speaks about her missing son, who she fears is dead, in Sloviansk, …read more
Source: Mashable
