Mykola Melenets, 37, comforts his mother Nina Melenets, 62, as the coffin of his brother and her son, Oleksandr Melenets, 44, who his family says was killed in shelling, is lowered into a grave in the village of Kamyanka, on the outskirts of Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, November 3, 2022. Nina is still looking for her husband, Serhiy, who has been missing since late March. "It will be easier for our hearts if they match the DNA," she said. "We spent 44 years together. We spent our whole lives together." REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Nina Melenets finally buried her son in November, more than seven months after she said he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine.
The 62-year-old is still looking for her husband, Serhiy, who has been missing since late March. Her surviving son has given DNA samples to forensic experts to see if there is a match among the bodies exhumed from a mass grave nearby in the city of Izium.
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