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> Russia’s Military Commissariat has sent a letter to a 17-year-old boy who was taken to Russia last year from the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol informing him that he must register for military service, a lawyer for the teenager and his guardian in Russia said.
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> Bohdan Yermokhin, who was placed under guardianship in Russia after being taken from Mariupol, received the letter from the Military Commissariat, said lawyer Kateryna Bobrovska, who says she represents Yermokhin in Ukraine.
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> Irina Rudnytska, Yermokhin’s official guardian in Russia, also confirmed the information to the BBC.
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> Yermokhin, who takes a pro-Ukrainian position and wants to go home, will soon turn 18 and, according to Russian law, may be subject to conscription into the army. But it is not clear that he would be required to serve because he is a college student and has a deferment.
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> The Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service that Yermokhin is not in danger of being drafted because of the deferment.
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> She also said that the teenager could return to Ukraine if he wished, adding that his sister is to pick him up next week. According to Lvova-Belova, documents for his departure are being prepared.
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> Bobrovska, however, said Yermokhin was received by Lvova-Belova in late August and was forced to write a statement that he wants to stay in Russia until he comes of age.
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> Bobrovska said that after Yermokhin’s 18th birthday in December he may be drafted into the Russian armed forces.
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> “Most likely, he will be sent to serve in the Russian Army,” Bobrovska said.
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> Yermokhin, who lost both parents a few years ago, lived with a foster family in Mariupol, where he studied at the Mariupol Higher Metallurgical Vocational School.
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> Shortly after the city was occupied by Russian troops in 2022, Yermokhin was taken to Russia and transferred to a foster family in the Moscow region.
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> Both Rudnytska and Yermokhin’s adoptive mother, whose family raised the boy before he entered college, independently told the BBC that Yermokhin currently has only a Russian passport. This allows the Russian state to consider him for the draft. However, international humanitarian law does not recognize “passporting carried out by Russia, based on the fact of occupation.”
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> Ukraine views Yermokhin as a Ukrainian citizen and any attempt to draft him by the Russian Military Commissariat as illegal.
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> Yermokhin has repeatedly stated that he wants to return to Ukraine. In March, he tried to escape to Ukraine through Belarus but was caught by Russian security forces near the border and detained. Russian authorities said that as a minor he could not decide for himself where to live.
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> Lvova-Belova, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague along with Russian President Vladimir Putin for their roles in the deportation of Ukrainian children, insisted that what happened was a provocation and that Yermokhin was lured to the territory of Ukraine “with the help of manipulation and threats.”
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> He has not commented on the incident but has expressed his support for Ukraine on social media.
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> “I just want to go home…. When a shell flies, my hatred for the enemy flies in response. And with every tear of Ukrainians it intensifies.”
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Jesus, they are desperate.
So that’s the future that will await one or both of the 16- and 17-year old Ukrainian children that Austrian officials deported to russia…
There was a “Donetsk people’s republic” in pre-occupied Donetsk oblast parts of Ukraine. They (we) had a forced draft started there as far as 19.02.22 and later on, till the russian “referendum” occurred.
From that time they stopped the draft, because they already mostly drafted many men,
(they even were drafting students after the war started, calling them to get draft notice at the uni, but stopped that and even returned some part later on, but not everyone and not everyone made it alive).
They did it on terms as they were drafting “dpr citizens”, but by their terms, you weren’t needed to have a “dpr passport”, only having a local residence in ukrainian passport was enough, because they viewed you as their “citizen” in that case.
But since it is “russian federation” now, by their thinking. They can only draft rf citizens now, so they are forcing people hard to get russian passport and trying to mess ukrainian citizen lives (no medical aid, you even can get “deported” from your home if they find you to be anti-russia or putin), so they can draft them, just like they did it to this guy.
Yuck, Belova should rot in jail. But I am morbidly curious about what goes in the head of that russian guardian person Rudnytska.
Russia has reached the next level of psychosis. Cruel, desperate and crazy.
Sign up, go on the front, shoot up your squad, run over to UA side.
Is this new to y’all? Russia already mobilized thousands from the captured territories.
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> Russia’s Military Commissariat has sent a letter to a 17-year-old boy who was taken to Russia last year from the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol informing him that he must register for military service, a lawyer for the teenager and his guardian in Russia said.
>
> Bohdan Yermokhin, who was placed under guardianship in Russia after being taken from Mariupol, received the letter from the Military Commissariat, said lawyer Kateryna Bobrovska, who says she represents Yermokhin in Ukraine.
>
> Irina Rudnytska, Yermokhin’s official guardian in Russia, also confirmed the information to the BBC.
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> Yermokhin, who takes a pro-Ukrainian position and wants to go home, will soon turn 18 and, according to Russian law, may be subject to conscription into the army. But it is not clear that he would be required to serve because he is a college student and has a deferment.
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> The Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service that Yermokhin is not in danger of being drafted because of the deferment.
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> She also said that the teenager could return to Ukraine if he wished, adding that his sister is to pick him up next week. According to Lvova-Belova, documents for his departure are being prepared.
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> Bobrovska, however, said Yermokhin was received by Lvova-Belova in late August and was forced to write a statement that he wants to stay in Russia until he comes of age.
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> Bobrovska said that after Yermokhin’s 18th birthday in December he may be drafted into the Russian armed forces.
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> “Most likely, he will be sent to serve in the Russian Army,” Bobrovska said.
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> Yermokhin, who lost both parents a few years ago, lived with a foster family in Mariupol, where he studied at the Mariupol Higher Metallurgical Vocational School.
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> Shortly after the city was occupied by Russian troops in 2022, Yermokhin was taken to Russia and transferred to a foster family in the Moscow region.
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> Both Rudnytska and Yermokhin’s adoptive mother, whose family raised the boy before he entered college, independently told the BBC that Yermokhin currently has only a Russian passport. This allows the Russian state to consider him for the draft. However, international humanitarian law does not recognize “passporting carried out by Russia, based on the fact of occupation.”
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> Ukraine views Yermokhin as a Ukrainian citizen and any attempt to draft him by the Russian Military Commissariat as illegal.
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> Yermokhin has repeatedly stated that he wants to return to Ukraine. In March, he tried to escape to Ukraine through Belarus but was caught by Russian security forces near the border and detained. Russian authorities said that as a minor he could not decide for himself where to live.
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> Lvova-Belova, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague along with Russian President Vladimir Putin for their roles in the deportation of Ukrainian children, insisted that what happened was a provocation and that Yermokhin was lured to the territory of Ukraine “with the help of manipulation and threats.”
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> He has not commented on the incident but has expressed his support for Ukraine on social media.
>
> “I just want to go home…. When a shell flies, my hatred for the enemy flies in response. And with every tear of Ukrainians it intensifies.”
>
Jesus, they are desperate.
So that’s the future that will await one or both of the 16- and 17-year old Ukrainian children that Austrian officials deported to russia…
There was a “Donetsk people’s republic” in pre-occupied Donetsk oblast parts of Ukraine. They (we) had a forced draft started there as far as 19.02.22 and later on, till the russian “referendum” occurred.
From that time they stopped the draft, because they already mostly drafted many men,
(they even were drafting students after the war started, calling them to get draft notice at the uni, but stopped that and even returned some part later on, but not everyone and not everyone made it alive).
They did it on terms as they were drafting “dpr citizens”, but by their terms, you weren’t needed to have a “dpr passport”, only having a local residence in ukrainian passport was enough, because they viewed you as their “citizen” in that case.
But since it is “russian federation” now, by their thinking. They can only draft rf citizens now, so they are forcing people hard to get russian passport and trying to mess ukrainian citizen lives (no medical aid, you even can get “deported” from your home if they find you to be anti-russia or putin), so they can draft them, just like they did it to this guy.
Yuck, Belova should rot in jail. But I am morbidly curious about what goes in the head of that russian guardian person Rudnytska.
Russia has reached the next level of psychosis. Cruel, desperate and crazy.
Sign up, go on the front, shoot up your squad, run over to UA side.
Is this new to y’all? Russia already mobilized thousands from the captured territories.
Good opportunity to go back to Ukraine