"Burning the Kremlin": a teenager from Mariupol Bogdan Ermokhin told about the impression of captivity in the Russian Federation

After the events of the bombing and occupation, the guy was traumatic trauma, from which an 18-year-old native of the occupied Mariupol Bogdan Ermokhin could not recover from the occupied Mariupol after the Russian invaders illegally abducted him together with many other minor children and took out. Before that, the guy personally asked President Vladimir Zelensky to assist in release. He had told about what he had to endure in Russia in an interview with the British edition of The Telegraph.

According to Bogdan, he, as well as 30 other Ukrainian orphans, had to live in Moscow for almost a year and a half, as the Russian army gathered children in Mariupol and deported them contrary to their will. He says that in May 2022, Mariupol's defense was stopped, after which all injured orphans were first taken to occupied Donetsk, and then to Moscow.

Already there they were adopted or educated by civil servants, forcing them to become Russian citizens and threatening conscription for military service for further participation in the war against their country. At that time, Yermokhin was only 16 years old, his parents died before the war. "They treated us as if they were potato bags, moving us without asking our consent and showing any care. The first months were blurred. I only understood that I needed to get out," says Bogdan.

After returning to Ukraine, after escaping from Russia, Yermohin tries to recover in Kiev. At the same time, his memoirs will forever remain the psychological consequences of the experience of deportation, an action that the UN called a war crime. At the same time, Bogdan would tell reporters that the Kremlin would be eager to set fire to if he were older or not so vulnerable.

During the bombing of Mariupol, he spent most of his time in the basement of the school hostel near the city metallurgical plant "Azovstal", which became the siege of siege and last defense of Ukraine in Mariupol. His acquaintances told about great attacks such as attacks on a drama theater while searching for food or water. "There were so many deaths and many corpses," he confessed.

Particularly painful memory for Bohdan Ermohigen was the moment when he held a 10-year-old girl who died of a chest in the chest. At the same time the girl of the girl also died because of shelling. According to the boy, a woman who appeared during pregnancy appeared in widespread pictures after a deadly attack on a city maternity hospital - and in an Oscar -bearing documentary "20 days in Mariupol" - is a distant cousin.

At the end of last year, fears for the safety of Yermokhin began to grow when he was coming to majority - in November he turned 18, and he received a letter, which was content with the journalists of The Telegraph, in which he was ordered to appear in the commissariat during the month. Russian officials stated that the call was made for protocollation. His trouble became known when the lawyer Kateryna Bobrovskaya appealed to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.

A little more than a week he returned to Ukraine, arriving on his 18th birthday, thanks to the agreement, which was reportedly made by Qatar and UNICEF. "I wrapped in the Ukrainian flag and jumped for 10 minutes," said Bogdan Ermokhin. However, neither he nor Bobrovskaya wanted to discuss accurate details of his escape to protect further efforts to save other children.