Kidnapped, tortured and jailed: one woman’s quest to bring her son home from Russia

Ivan and Maryna’s story is just one of hundreds of thousands of family tragedies that have afflicted Ukrainians after three years of Russian invasion

Ivan Zabavskyi was looking for his mother when he disappeared.

It was September 2022, and he had grown increasingly nervous as he read reports of intense fighting in the area where Maryna lived. Eventually, he decided to cycle across the frontline to rescue her.

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