The teenager abducted by Russians from Ukraine was probably caught on the border with Belarus while trying to return to Ukraine

This was reported by Radio Liberty, citing statements by the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova.

Maria Lvova-Belova said that Russian law enforcement agencies had detained 17-year-old Bohdan Yermokhin on the border with Belarus when he tried to return to Ukraine.

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

It is known that Bohdan Yermokhin was adopted by Irina Rudnitskaya from the city of Ruza, 110 kilometers from Moscow. Rudnytska is a doctor who was at the front during the Russian-Chechen war. Afterward, she changed her profession and became a psychologist at a local orphanage. Today, Iryna Rudnytska is the head of the Association of Substitute Families.

On March 23, the boy disappeared in the city of Ruza. Information about this was published by the National Center for Children. However, two days later it was reported that Bohdan had been found.

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