Yevhen Mezhevoy, a single father, and his three children were separated at the filtration center in Mariupol. The man was sent to the Olenivska colony, and the children were deported to the Moscow region. For 45 days, they knew nothing about each other.
Other children were also deported to Russia along with the Mezhevys. They were taken as part of one group of 31 children, the list of which was personally approved by the leader of the "DPR" group Denis Pushilin. Yevhen Mezhevoy eventually managed to get his children back, just before they were adopted by a Russian family. And now they are key witnesses in the International Criminal Court case against President Vladimir Putin and Russian children's ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova in The Hague. Some of the children from the "List of 31" have already been placed with new families in Russia. In particular, Pylyp Holovnya, who was adopted by Lvova-Belova.
Journalists of the projects "Are You OK?" and "Schemes" (Radio Liberty) talked to the deported children, restoring the circumstances of their deportation together with them, and also received exclusive documents from the leaked mail of Russian protege Pushilin, verifying them and comparing them with the events of that time.
This made it possible to identify by name the children who were illegally taken to Russia that day, as well as to find out how they were deported from Donetsk region to Russia and who organized it.
Authors: Mariana Sych, Kyrylo Ovsyanyi
Director: Nazar Pytel
Editors: Kateryna Lykhoglyad, Kira Tolstyakova
Editor-in-chief: Natalia Sedletska
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