Mother and son torn apart as Kyiv forces retake town
On the frontline of the war just west of Donetsk, 65-year-old Tamara waited
for a food package from a European-funded aid project. Her town of
Krasnohorivka, retaken by the Ukrainian army from Russian-backed militants
at the start of August, still suffers daily shelling and is short of water
and gas, but Tamara’s greatest loss is her son, who is fighting with the
separatists and may never be able to come home.
“He says he’ll come back when it’s over, but how can he?” she said. “He took
an oath to the militants. If he comes back he’ll be a traitor,