17-year-old teenager, deportee from Mariupol, served with summons in Russia
Pravda Ukraine
17-year-old Bohdan Yermokhin, who was illegally deported from Mariupol, has been served with a summons in Russia.
This is reported by Radio Liberty with reference to Kateryna Bobrovska, the teenager’s lawyer.
Bohdan’s parents died when he was eight years old. His sister acted as his guardian all the time.
First, the Russian military took Bohdan to occupied Donetsk. In May 2022, he ended up in a children’s sanatorium in Moscow Oblast.
In July 2022, he was placed under the care of Russian citizen Iryna Rudnitskaya, a veteran of one of the Chechen wars. After that, the boy turned to a lawyer for help.
“Since July 2022, Bohdan has made several unsuccessful attempts to return to Ukraine. He is still under guardianship in Russia, despite the fact that he has a legal guardian in Ukraine. He was given a Russian passport and is being forced to obtain a passport of a Russian citizen in order to travel abroad,” notes Kateryna Bobrovska.
Bohdan will turn 18 on 19 November. He has already received a summons to appear before the Military Committee of Moscow Oblast on 19 December 2023.
“Bohdan’s sister and I have provided all the necessary documents confirming that Bohdan and his sister are blood relatives, as well as documents confirming that she is his legal guardian.
Documents are notarised and apostilled (Apostille is an official government-issued certificate attached to documents so that they are recognised when presented in another country – ed.). His Ukrainian domestic passport and Ukrainian foreign passport are also available,” Bobrovska says.
However, in a conversation with the lawyer, Bohdan informed that Maria Lvova-Belova (Commissioner under the President of the Russian Federation for Children’s Rights) has no intention of returning him to Ukraine.
Reminder:
The volunteers brought back another 19 children from the temporarily occupied territories.
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