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Family members of Ukrainian prisoners hold photos of servicemen in captivity during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Family members of Ukrainian prisoners hold photos of servicemen in captivity during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

As the freed men entered the medical facility, people holding signs and photos of their relatives shouted names or brigade numbers, seeking any news of a loved one. The returning men inspected the photos, and a serviceman said he shared a cell with one of those on the sea of portraits held out toward him.“Vanya!” cried Nataliia Mosych, among the gathered relatives, “My husband!”She hadn’t seen her husband, Ivan, for almost two years, she said, beaming.

“It is an unbelievable feeling. I am still in shock,” Mosych said after he came outside to greet his family following registration procedures inside the facility. “I am really glad, and we were not forgotten, and we still mean something for Ukraine.”Many who were freed expressed shock and disbelief that they had been exchanged. Some had trouble remembering names and details of their lives before their capture.

One released POW joked in a video call with his girlfriend that he got a bit older in his three-year absence, and she replied he was as beautiful as ever.

Many relatives wept when it became clear their loved ones were not among those returning, and they hoped those who were released could at least offer some information about their husbands, brothers and sons.“Captain America: Brave New World,” a Walt Disney Pictures release that opens in theaters on Friday, is rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of violence, action and some strong language.” Running time: 118 minutes. One star out of four.

“You’re the actor!” shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly claiming he lacks funds to support her. “The best actor in the world! Better than Clark Gable!”And we all chuckle. They probably all chuckled on set, too. Because the man playing Vito

is none other than Robert De Niro, indeed one of the best actors in the world, revered in our time as Gable was in his.It’s a cute moment and an apt one, too, because