Ukrainian Teen Returns Home After Being Taken to Russia, Zelenskiy Imposes Sanctions on Russian Groups and Individuals

Ukrainian teenager, Bohdan Yermokhin, who was taken to Russia from the occupied city of Mariupol, has returned to Ukraine with the help of Qatar and the UN children's agency UNICEF. Russia denies claims that over 20,000 Ukrainian children have been illegally transferred to Russia since the war began. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people, including a former Prime Minister and a former Education Minister, for their involvement in the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children. Yale University research found that over 2,400 Ukrainian children have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.