Celia Hatton

They still haven't been reunited in person.

It was just a phone call so far.

There's a lot of rehab to go through for him after four years in a Russian jail.

And of course, coming to terms with the information that his family not only thought he was dead, but buried what they thought was his body.

I've got to say, even the sound of that phone call gave me goosebumps.

I mean, we heard the reaction from the family.

What's been the wider reaction in Ukraine?

I mean, to be honest, I think they'll be sharing that joy.

And it's a video that's, you know, obviously zipped around the Internet.

Everybody's watching it.

Everybody's commenting on it.

It is so rare that there are happy moments in this war.

And this is one that's just so extraordinary.

There are so many families here whose sons, wives, husbands, people who were fighting in the war have gone missing in action.

And people are many families.

I've met them over my time here today.

Many people are hoping that those people are prisoners of war, but they don't know, in fact, whether they've been killed.

So there's this massive doubt for so many families who wait for that moment that tells them one way or the other.

So for this family, it's amazingly good news.

But of course, there's a body that was buried in the village cemetery, and that is a soldier whose own family have no idea where they are.