President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked everyone involved in the return home of Bohdan Yermokhin who was deported from the occupied city of Mariupol by the Russians; he turned 18 on 19 November. Source: President's evening address Quote: "Separately I would like to thank everyone whose concern and efficiency help us return to Ukraine children who were abducted from the occupied territory.
Bohdan Yermokhin, 17, illegally deported from the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol and served with a military draft notice in Russia, has arrived in Belarus and is staying there with his sister. Source: Vyorstka, a Russian-language online media outlet, citing Yermokhin and his lawyer Ekaterina Bobrovskaya; Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation, on Telegram Details: Reports indicate that as early as 13 November, Yermokhin, whom the Russian authorities promis
Ukraine's Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman) Dmytro Lubinets has said that Bohdan Yermokhin, a teenager who had been deported from Russian-occupied Mariupol in southern Ukraine to the Russian Federation where he received a draft notice, has returned to Ukraine.