Russian serviceman Denis Volkov is trying in court to adopt a child taken from the Oleshky children’s boarding home.
He said this to the occupying media.
Volkov noted that the child already lives with his family, but he aims to change his status from guardian to full parenthood.
Recall, in the autumn of 2022 the Russian authorities and the occupation administration in several stages relocated and deported the pupils of the Oleshky children’s boarding school to various parts of the occupied territory of Ukraine and to Russia.
Of more than a hundred children and young people with disabilities, only about ten have been able to return from where they were deported.
According to Ukrainian authorities, the Russian Federation forcibly removed at least 20,000 children to occupied Crimea and to Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.