On Monday, The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) announced the winners of its “Voices of the Missing” journalism contest, which focuses on reporting about Ukraine’s missing persons and the families trying to find them. The contest was organized by ICMP with support from Norway through a NORAD grant. It aims to highlight journalism that covers the human side of disappearances and efforts to account for people still missing because of the war.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Ingrid Schøyen from the Norwegian embassy said: “How a nation treats the issue of missing persons says something about who we are as a nation.” A total of 53 journalistic works from across Ukraine were submitted. A jury made up of journalists, civil society representatives, and families of missing persons selected the winners. Two Kinds of Return Among the authors present was Olha Hlechyk, who told the story of the mother of a missing person. Her winning piece, “My heart told me this is my son: How a mother from the Odesa region single-handedly found a missing soldier in captivity,” carries a title that stops you. She describes a form of motherhood that does not wait for official confirmation or scientific explanation. In her story, belief becomes action. The narrative ends in rare resolution: the missing soldier returns from captivity and is now happily married. It is a story that sustains the idea that a missing person is a “person of fate,” whose story is not yet complete.