INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Ukrainian woman seeking to return her forcibly transferred godson and his brother from Russia has been detained and deported from Moscow,
Security Service (FSB) agents detained Hurulia on May 23 and threatened to imprison her for 15 years.She was deported to Belarus without her
17-year-old godson and his brother several days ago, according to the BBC.Save Ukraine told the Kyiv Independent news outlet that Hurulia
had the needed documents to prove her family connections with the children but was forced to deny those connections under duress.Ukrainian
media featured Hurulia in a July 2022 report on life in Kherson under Russian occupation before Ukrainian forces reclaimed the city last
fall.Kyiv says more than 19,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia since invading Ukraine in February 2022, with many believed
to have been placed in institutions and foster homes.Ukraine has returned 371 of these children so far, according to President Volodymyr
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), determined last month that the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia
