Due fratelli finalmente si riuniscono dopo tre anni, poiché il fratello minore è stato portato con la forza in Russia

Sviatoslav lost both of his parents. After the occupation of his hometown Lysychansk, his aunt took him to russia, although he was against it. He was then still a teen, and all the time he was there, in russia, he dreamed of returning to his brother Ilia. He also has a sister who lives in Odesa.   

“I felt relieved, finally my home country,” said Sviatoslav Tyshchenko about his return to Ukraine with his first emotions after crossing the border control checkpoint.

“I am home, and it’s even easier to breathe. When I saw my brother, I told him that I love him very much, missed him a lot. I will never let him go again, I will always be with him,” Sviatoslav said.

The older brother, Ilia, has been in the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2020. In battles near Kupiansk, he sustained a severe injury, lost part of his leg, and now has a prosthesis.

The older brother, Ilia Tyshchenko, always took care of his younger brother, helped him, and when he found out that their aunt had taken the boy to russia, he continuously worked on bringing him back home.

“When she was drunk, the aunt told me that until he was 18, he would be there, you could say, as a hostage. We communicated every day about his surroundings, how he felt emotionally, whether everything was alright with him. I can say that he has grown a lot emotionally,” said Illia.

A team from the Ukrainian Network for Children’s Rights, along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, and diplomats worked on bringing the boy back to Ukraine.

This is a shortened translation. Source: [https://suspilne.media/lutsk/771051-tri-roki-rozluki-z-bratom-na-agodini-zustrili-16-ricnogo-hlopca-akogo-proti-voli-vivezli-do-rosii/](https://suspilne.media/lutsk/771051-tri-roki-rozluki-z-bratom-na-agodini-zustrili-16-ricnogo-hlopca-akogo-proti-voli-vivezli-do-rosii/)