Teenager Yermokhin, deported from Mariupol to Russia, will soon be in Ukraine

Ukraine has arranged the return of 17-year-old Bohdan Yermokhin, who was deported from occupied Mariupol.

Source: Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, on social networks

Quote: "Bohdan Yermokhin will soon be in Ukraine! I officially confirm that we have agreements on Bohdan's return to Ukraine and his reunification with his sister."

Details: Lubinets urged "everyone to calm down" and not to spread unverified information. He emphasised that such publicity harms the return process.

Background:

• 16-year-old Bohdan Yermokhin from Mariupol was deported to Russia by the Russians in 2022. He ended up in a children's sanatorium in Moscow Oblast.
• In July 2022, he was placed under the care of Iryna Rudnitskaya, a Russian citizen and veteran of one of the Chechen wars. After that, he contacted a lawyer and asked her to help him. 
• Bohdan will turn 18 on 19 November. He already received a summons to report to the Moscow Oblast enlistment office on 19 December 2023.
• Maria Lvova-Belova (the Russian President’s Commissioner for Children's Rights), had previously confirmed that the boy would be returned home as early as next week.

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