Dmytro had not seen his wife Larisa for 1,711 days.
Waiting near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, his nervous eyes were on the horizon, looking for the bus carrying Larisa and others fleeing the occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky.
Hundreds of people – and many pets – arrived back in Ukraine on Saturday afternoon after being evacuated from the frontline city under a ceasefire that Pope Leo XIV called for and first lady Melania Trump helped to negotiate.
