Ukrainian teenager committed suicide in a foster family in Russia
In 2022, he was forcibly removed from Kherson Oblast.
Based on materials from «IStories»
In the village of Kuchugury in Krasnodar Krai, an 18-year-old native of Kherson Region, Sasha Yakushchenko, hanged himself.
The boy had been living in a foster family — for a month before his coming of age and afterwards.
Sasha ended up in Russia in 2022.
From Kherson, which had been liberated by the AFU, he, together with other children, was taken out by Ukrainian collaborators with the help of Russian soldiers.
Sasha took his own life a few kilometers from the house where he lived.
His body was found by construction workers.
It happened in January of last year, but it has become known only now.
The foster parents told journalists that they do not know why the boy made this decision.
Before his death, he left the following message to his friends:
«Over there I’m f***ing needed by no one. They made that clear to me. I can’t, I will hang myself.»