"While you are waiting for Christmas - we are waiting for our loved ones to return from Russian captivity," say the families of Ukrainian prisoners of war holding rallies to remember people held in Russian prisons and torture chambers.
Almost everyone here is expecting to see someone returned to them. Small children are waiting for their fathers, women are waiting for their husbands.
Many Ukrainian prisoners of war will be spending their third Christmas in Russian captivity, like Mariupol defenders who have become a symbol of Ukraine's resistance with their fierce defence of the Azovstal steel plant.
Representatives of the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families told Euronews they cannot think of a better Christmas present than to see their loved ones alive and back home.
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