Svitlana Grebinyk, 46, said she last heard from her son, a Ukrainian marine in Mariupol, on April 12. He had sent a message to her on Instagram.
She paraphrased him: “I don’t have a way out. We have no other choice. We will most likely be in captivity.”
“I love you all.”
Her son’s unit, the 36th Brigade, had posted a message on its Facebook page on April 11. Ms. Grebinyk ignored it because it was fraught with grammatical errors and in Russian and Ukrainian, and she thought it was disinformation.
It turned out it was a farewell note from the brigade. “It ended very very sadly,” she said, “With ‘I don’t know what’s going to come next but please remember our brigade and that we did everything. We were loyal forever.’”
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