Counteroffensive nears; Ukrainian mother fights for human rights lawyer son, now a POW

Tim Mak, former Army medic and NPR correspondent, will be providing Daily Kos weekly dispatches from inside Ukraine—kos

Would you rather not know the fate of your missing son?

Or know for certain that he was a prisoner of war, being held by Russia-aligned forces under fake charges?

For much of the last year, Yevgenia and Oleksandr Butkevych have been going through both kinds of hell. First, their son went missing in war, then he was identified as one of the many POWs held by Russian forces.

"Me and my husband, we don't live right now,”  Yevgenia told me. “Our life is waiting, expecting a call.”