Ukrainian woman’s quest to retrieve body of prisoner of war


              Viktoria Skliar leads her horse 'Canada' and followed by her dog 'Cherry' at the stables called "Magnat" in the Kyiv region, Monday Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)
            
              Viktoria Skliar poses for a photo with her boyfriend Oleksii Kisilishin on Aug. 24 2021. In the last, brief conversations Skliar had with Kisilishin, her detained boyfriend, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was making tentative plans for life after his release in an upcoming exchange with Russia. The next time Skliar saw Kisilishin, he was dead — one of several bodies in a photo of people local authorities said were killed when blasts ripped through a prison in a part of Ukraine's Donetsk region controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. (Courtesy of Viktoria Skliar via AP)
            
              Viktoria Skliar poses for a photo Monday Aug. 8, 2022 with the horse 'Canada' and holding her dog 'Cherry' at the stables called "Magnat" in the Kyiv region. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)
            
              A July 5, 2021 photo of Oleksii Kisilishin holding his dog Cherry. In the last, brief conversations Viktoria Skliar had with Oleksii Kisilishin, her detained boyfriend, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was making tentative plans for life after his release in an upcoming exchange with Russia. The next time Skliar saw Kisilishin, he was dead — one of several bodies in a photo of people local authorities said were killed when blasts ripped through a prison in a part of Ukraine's Donetsk region controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. (Viktoria Skliar via AP)
            
              Viktoria Skliar holds her dog Cherry as she is interviewed by the Associated Press at the stables, named "Magnat" in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)
            
              FILE - Investigators examine bodies of Ukrainian military prisoners at the prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. In the last, brief conversations Viktoria Skliar had with her boyfriend Oleksii Kisilishin, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was making tentative plans for life after his release in an upcoming exchange with Russia. The next time Skliar saw Kisilishin, who had been among defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, he was dead. She recognized him in a photo shared on social media — he was laid out, seminaked on the ground in a line with eight other bodies after a blast ripped through a prison on July 29 in Olenivka, a separatist region of eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo, File)
            
              Viktoria Skliar is interviewed by the Associated Press at the stables, named "Magnat" in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday Aug. 8, 2022. In the last, brief conversations Skliar had with Oleksii Kisilishin, her detained boyfriend, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was making tentative plans for life after his release in an upcoming exchange with Russia. The next time Skliar saw Kisilishin, he was dead — one of several bodies in a photo of people local authorities said were killed when blasts ripped through a prison in a part of Ukraine's Donetsk region controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)
            
              Viktoria Skliar poses for a photo Monday Aug. 8, 2022 with the horse 'Canada' at the stables called "Magnat" in the Kyiv region. In the last, brief conversations Skliar had with Oleksii Kisilishin, her detained boyfriend, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was making tentative plans for life after his release in an upcoming exchange with Russia. The next time Skliar saw Kisilishin, he was dead — one of several bodies in a photo of people local authorities said were killed when blasts ripped through a prison in a part of Ukraine's Donetsk region controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)
Ukrainian woman’s quest to retrieve body of prisoner of war