KYIV, Ukraine — Iryna Reva stares at her phone, replaying the last video her 25-year-old son Vladyslav sent her from the front line before the volunteer soldier disappeared 19 months ago in a battle with Russian forces in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. “I understand perfectly well that if I were there, he would have come to me, and maybe something …
Ukrainian war veteran Oleksandr Shvetsov walks along a highway toward Kyiv from Zhytomyr to meet his friend Serhii Khrapko on their 75-mile fundraising walk. The task for the Ukrainianwar veterans was clear: From different cities, Oleksandr Shevtsov and Serhii Khrapko would walk 75 miles and meet somewhere in the middle in honor of their comrades wounded in Russia’s war against …
