During the course of the war in eastern Ukraine, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been either captured as POWs or gone missing during the fighting. Families of the missing soldiers have had to endure a torturous and bureaucratic process to find their sons, passed from one ministry to another, with some families having to travel to rebel territory themselves to search for them.
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A Ukrainian soldier walks to his dugout in a military redoubt near Novoaidar in Luhansk Oblast on Dec. 9.
