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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kyiv

An orphaned teenager who was taken to Russia early in the Ukraine war is back home with relatives

Ukrainian Presidential Press Office

An orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country returned home after being reunited with relatives in Belarus on his 18th birthday Sunday.

Bohdan Yermokhin was pictured embracing family members in Minsk in photographs shared on social media by Russia’s children’s rights ombudswoman, Maria Lvova-Belova.

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