Bohdan Yermokhin from Mariupol, who was illegally deported to Russia by Russians, is now in Ukraine

Bohdan Yermokhin, who was illegally deported from Mariupol to Russia, has returned to Ukraine.

The Head of the Office of the President, Andrii Yermak, has announced this.

On November 19, Bohdan Yermokhin turned 18 years old. He has a legal guardian in Ukraine — his cousin.

The boy had previously appealed to the president to help him return to Ukraine. In March, he tried to return to Ukraine but was detained in Belarus by the Russian FSB.

Recently, it became known that the Russians had issued a summons to Yermokhin.

Bohdan Yermokhin is originally from Mariupol. According to his former teachers, he was orphaned at an early age. His parents died when Bohdan was about eight years old.

On September 1, 2021, Bohdan Yermokhin entered the institution's first year of his studies. He studied to become a car mechanic and lived in a student dormitory. That is where he met the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military.

It is currently impossible to establish exactly how the minor Bohdan got to the Russians and who was directly responsible for this. All that is known is that the Russians took the boy from the temporarily occupied Mariupol together with 30 other underage Mariupol residents in the spring of 2022.