The soldier who came back from the dead

(Top) Daletskyi showing a photo from his own funeral, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine; (below) Daletskyi hugging his daughter while his mother looks on after his return to the village of Velykyi Doroshiv in western Ukraine. — Oksana Parafeniuk/The New York Times

ON his first day home after nearly four years in Russian captivity, Nazar Daletskyi took a walk to the small cemetery in Velykyi Doroshiv, a village in western Ukraine.

There, he gazed down at his own grave.