"For weeks after Russian troops forcibly removed Natalya Zhornyk’s teenage son from his school last fall, she had no idea where he was or what had happened to him. Then came a phone call.’Mom, come and get me,’ said her son, Artem, 15. He had remembered his mother’s phone number and borrowed the school director’s cellphone. Ms. Zhornyk made him a promise: ‘When the fighting calms down, I will come.’ Artem and a dozen schoolmates had been loaded up by Russian troops and transferred to a school farther inside Russian-occupied Ukraine. While Ms. Zhornyk was relieved to know where he was being held, reaching him would not be easy. They were now on different sides of the front line of a full-blown war, and border crossings from Ukraine into Russian-occupied territory were closed. ...”
Artem Hutorov, center, and Maksym Marchenko, second from left, after their journey from Russia to Ukraine in March.
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