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‘Bring my mom back’: Ukrainian civilians vanish into Russian jails

Alina Kapatsyna holds a poster that reads: "Bring my mom back from captivity," in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Friday, January 6, 2023. Men in military uniforms took her mother away from her home in April. © Hanna Arhirova, AP

Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her mother. In those visions, her mother tells her that she’s coming home. Men in military uniforms took 45-year-old Vita Hannych away from her house in eastern Ukraine in April. She never returned.

Her family later learned that Hannych, who has long suffered from seizures because of a brain cyst, is in custody in the Russian-occupied part of the Donetsk region.

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