Good morning. On 13 September 2024, 49 Ukrainian prisoners of war arrived back on home soil, stepping off a coach that had taken them from Russian prison cells into the waiting arms of their families, as part of a prisoner swap negotiated between the Ukrainian and Russian governments.
Yet on that sunny autumn morning, one prisoner on the official swap list was missing. A young Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, captured by Russian forces just over a year earlier while on a reporting trip near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
