For two and a half years now, Izabela Piekh hasn’t seen her mother Olena, whom Russian occupation authorities of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas captured in August 2018, when she came to her hometown of Horlivka to look after her elderly mother after a stroke.
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Human rights activists and famous Ukrainian artists stand behind the chairs with attached sheets with names of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia during ''Empty Chairs" performance at Sofiyivska Square in Kyiv on Nov.15, 2020.
