Nazar Daletskyi's family were sure he had been killed and had buried what they thought was his body in 2023.
Nazar Daletskyi's family were sure the soldier had been killed in action.
In 2023, they'd buried his body in the village cemetery, in western Ukraine.
But Nazar has just phoned his mother, weakened and exhausted - but very much alive.
He's been released from Russian captivity in the latest prisoner swap.
"My emotions were so strong," the soldier's mother Nataliya told the BBC, still reeling from the shock.
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