"Was a real hell": Ukraine returned illegally exported to the Russian Federation (video)
After the occupation of Lisichansk, his aunt was taken to Russia, although the guy himself was against it. Svyatoslav says that while he was in the Russian Federation, he dreamed of returning to 26-year-old brother Elijah to Ukraine. The boy also has a sister Anna, who lives in Odessa. In the Voronezh region, the boy had to go to school where they were mocked. "There was a real hell. I was humiliated, they were, mocked. Many threats were . . . I was kept by force.
I asked me to take me back - they were told to wait 18 years," the guy recalls. Svyatoslav recalls that it was difficult at school, but he mentioned the guidelines of his brother who raised him as he could stand for himself. Therefore, he managed to sustain abuse and even get himself respect. But above all, the guy dreamed of returning to Ukraine and his brother. "I was home and even easier to breathe. I said when I saw my brother, I said very much, I was very sad.
I will never let him go, I will always be with him," Svyatoslav said after crossing the border. The road home took four days. But to take together. Ilya Tishchenko, Svyatoslav's elder brother, since 2020 - in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During a full -scale war in battles near Kupyansk, he was seriously injured, lost part of his leg and now has a prosthesis.
Elijah always took care of his younger brother, helped, and when he learned that his aunt had taken the little one to Russia - he was constantly working on returning him home. But he communicated with him every day. "In a drunken state, my aunt told me that she would not take him anywhere and up to 18 years he could say like a hostage. We talked every day that he surrounds him, how he feels mentally or everything is good.
I can say, I can say, I can say, I can say That he grew up in an emotional state, "the man said. A team of the Ukrainian network for the rights of the child together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and the Diplomat, worked on the return of Svyatoslav to Ukraine.
Anastasia Khaliulova, a representative of the public union "Ukrainian Network for the Rights of the Child", said that it was not easy to return Svyatoslav home: a large number of people had to be attracted. According to her, more than 19,000 deported children from Ukraine to Russia are aware of more than 200 children. We will remind, earlier Focus wrote about how Russia exports children from Ukraine. This also happens in the occupied territories of our country.