Kateryna Chernoval22:11, 24.12.24

The Prosecutor General’s Office announced the opening of criminal proceedings.

An 18-year-old Ukrainian, Oleksandr Yakushchenko, who was illegally deported from the territory of the Kherson region in the fall of 2022, committed suicide in Russia . The publication ” Vazhnye istorii ” reports this . 

“How do I know why? He was not living under our care. He was 18 years old, he was an adult child. He just lived with us,” – these are the words of the head of the foster family in the Krasnodar Territory, under whose care the Ukrainian teenager was transferred, answered the question about the causes of Alexander’s death.

The tragedy was not reported publicly – neither on the Internet, nor in the media, nor in the guardianship authorities. The head of the foster family, Alexander Lukashenko, said that the teenager hanged himself a few kilometers from the new house. His body was found by workers who were leaving for their morning shift.

It is noted that shortly before his suicide, Alexander sent his friends a voice message in which he talked about his relationship with the foster family to whom the boy was given in the Russian Federation:

“Nobody needs me there […]. They made me understand that. I’m ruining everyone’s life. I can’t, I’ll hang myself… If I weren’t here, no one would have […] any problems now, if only I hadn’t come here. I can’t… […] I’m in a lot of pain. I don’t know what to do.”

The authors of the material found out that until the fall of 2022, Oleksandr lived in a family-type orphanage in Tokarivka, Kherson region. There were 7 other children living there, and the home was run by a local resident named Lidia Sharvarly. 

Serhiy Manchenko, who was one of the residents of that building, said that the conditions there were “as harsh as possible.”

“We were forced to work a lot. There was a construction site there, Sasha and I plastered together, we mixed cement almost every day, summer and winter. It was like some kind of exploitation. They beat us, especially the little ones. I remember we went to school and were distracted from everything because it was very bad at home, as bad as possible. When it was the weekend, we didn’t want to go home – everyone was happy that it was the weekend, home, but we didn’t like it,” he shared.

After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the head of a family-type home began collaborating with the occupiers. She was given the position of “head of Tokarivka and two neighboring villages.”

When the Ukrainian military liberated Kherson, Sharvarly fled to Russia and took all her children there, after which she abandoned them. The publication says that at that time the Russian Federation offered compensation to the residents of the Kherson region in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. One of the wards of the traitor Sharvarly admitted that she received the money, but the woman took it away. Her new adoptive family filed a complaint with the police, but law enforcement agencies did not find any crime in this.

Lidia Sharvarly herself ignored the reports from journalists. At the same time, her daughter Tetyana denies the accusations of embezzlement and exploitation of children. 

It should be noted that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine announced the opening of criminal proceedings in connection with information about the death of a teenager: 

“On December 24, information was published in the media about the suicide of a Ukrainian teenager – a resident of a family-type home in the village of Tokarivka, Kherson region, who was illegally transferred to the territory of the Russian Federation. In this regard, criminal proceedings were initiated on the fact of committing a war crime that caused the death of a person (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),” the report says.

The pre-trial investigation will be conducted by the Main Investigation Department of the SBU under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

(C)UNIAN 2024