Kseniia’s little brother would not hug her when she came to rescue him from the Russians.
When she walked through the door, Sergii, 11, would not look her in the eye and turned his body away from her.
“I don’t want to return because in Ukraine, the Nazis will kill me,” he told her, repeating himself over and over. “I want to stay in Russia because no one wanted me in Ukraine.”
In an incredible story of bravery and perseverance, Kseniia, now 20, managed to find her stolen brother and worked to bring both of them home. They are, in a way, some of the luckier victims. An estimated 19,500 children are thought to have been stolen, while 1.6 million more are currently forced to live under occupation.
“I promised myself… I can do this and take him [back],” she says, speaking to *The i Paper* in London as part of a delegation from Ukraine speaking to journalists and MPs to raise awareness of Russia’s documented forced abductions of children.
# ‘They had brainwashed my brother’
In August 2022, Russian troops came to the small town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv.
It was destroyed, and its population of 17,500 dropped to just 300.
It is where the pair had lived with a foster family since being taken into care. Their father was absent, and their mother could no longer care for them.
This difficult childhood meant that the brother and sister were close despite the seven-year age gap.
This is fucking evil. After ww2 we were told to never forget, never allow this behaviour again.
But we are allowing it. And it’s tragic for these kids.
Kseniia has more courage than most of the politicians involved in this “war”.
Devastating story to read, and it’s sad theirs thousands of more cases like it
I like to think (hope) that these older children will one day think back on their true heritage and will become an enemy within.
ruzzia is a terrorist state, it is that simple. One day soon I hope putins regime will be dismantled.
She is so incredibly brave. I hope her story helps more children get back home to Ukraine to be reunited with their families. What Russia has done to them is atrocious and evil.
And Trumpette is helping with covering this….. F ruSSia and uSSa…
That’s some Handmaid’s Tale shit right there.
Another real-life hero, no cape required just courage and love.
When you thought Russia couldn’t fall any lower, you get shit like this.
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Kseniia’s little brother would not hug her when she came to rescue him from the Russians.
When she walked through the door, Sergii, 11, would not look her in the eye and turned his body away from her.
“I don’t want to return because in Ukraine, the Nazis will kill me,” he told her, repeating himself over and over. “I want to stay in Russia because no one wanted me in Ukraine.”
The [Ukrainian](https://inews.co.uk/topic/ukraine?ico=in-line_link) siblings were among the thousands abducted by [Russia](https://inews.co.uk/topic/russia?ico=in-line_link) and taken across the border since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began in [February 2022](https://inews.co.uk/topic/russia-ukraine-war?ico=in-line_link).
In an incredible story of bravery and perseverance, Kseniia, now 20, managed to find her stolen brother and worked to bring both of them home. They are, in a way, some of the luckier victims. An estimated 19,500 children are thought to have been stolen, while 1.6 million more are currently forced to live under occupation.
Children who have made it back have talked of being [strip-searched, trained to handle guns and taught to fear adults](https://inews.co.uk/news/treat-ukrainian-children-stolen-russia-musk-3600597?ico=in-line_link).
“I promised myself… I can do this and take him [back],” she says, speaking to *The i Paper* in London as part of a delegation from Ukraine speaking to journalists and MPs to raise awareness of Russia’s documented forced abductions of children.
# ‘They had brainwashed my brother’
In August 2022, Russian troops came to the small town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv.
It was destroyed, and its population of 17,500 dropped to just 300.
It is where the pair had lived with a foster family since being taken into care. Their father was absent, and their mother could no longer care for them.
This difficult childhood meant that the brother and sister were close despite the seven-year age gap.
This is fucking evil. After ww2 we were told to never forget, never allow this behaviour again.
But we are allowing it. And it’s tragic for these kids.
Kseniia has more courage than most of the politicians involved in this “war”.
Devastating story to read, and it’s sad theirs thousands of more cases like it
I like to think (hope) that these older children will one day think back on their true heritage and will become an enemy within.
ruzzia is a terrorist state, it is that simple. One day soon I hope putins regime will be dismantled.
She is so incredibly brave. I hope her story helps more children get back home to Ukraine to be reunited with their families. What Russia has done to them is atrocious and evil.
And Trumpette is helping with covering this….. F ruSSia and uSSa…
That’s some Handmaid’s Tale shit right there.
Another real-life hero, no cape required just courage and love.
When you thought Russia couldn’t fall any lower, you get shit like this.
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