At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia. Ukraine is expanding the draft to cope with acute battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Aurelia Choc Cac and her two children, 17-year-old daughter Niurka, and two-year-old Anthony, were last seen Friday. She was meant to be picked up for work the next day, but didn't answer the door. Th...