Irina Pidluzhna, the mother of a Ukrainian soldier who was captured by Russia in May, is comforted by Bogdan Sirchenko during a rally in Kyiv on July 30, 2022.

Irina Pidluzhna, the mother a Ukrainian soldier from the Azov Regiment who was captured by Russia in May after the fall of Mariupol, is comforted by Bogdan Sirchenko during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, July 30, 2022. Russian and Ukrainian officials have blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in an attack Friday on a prison in a separatist-controlled area of eastern Ukraine. Pidluzhna has no information on the well-being of her son. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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