The Wider Image: A Ukrainian woman’s harrowing quest to find

Nina Melenets, 62, cries as the doors of a van opens to reveal a coffin containing her son Oleksandr Melenets, 44, who his family says was killed in shelling in the village of Kamyanka, on the outskirts of Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, November 3, 2022. Melenets is still looking for her husband, Serhiy, who has been missing since late March. “It will be easier for our hearts if they match the DNA,” she said. “We spent 44 years together. We spent our whole lives together.” REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne