Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are missing in action

VANYA YEVYCH went missing in a firefight near Lyman, in the Donetsk region, on April 19th. One of the soldiers in his unit saw him fall, but was too badly injured to get to him. The area, fought over for several days and scattered with bodies from both sides, was overrun by Russians; the Ukrainians could not even use to see what had happened, because of Russian jamming. “There is no reliable information that he is lying there,” said Tanya Kolomiyets, his sister, speaking in Poltava, a region east of Kyiv, her voice heavy with the stress of uncertainty. Perhaps he is still alive.