“Oleksandr Yakushchenko was 18 years and seven months old at the time of his death. The cause of death, the newspaper reports, was suicide: the teenager hanged himself a few kilometers from the house”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yakushchenko lived in a family-type orphanage in the village of Tokarivka near Kherson, managed by Lidia Sharvarly. After the occupation of the village of Sharvarly, according to the publication, she began to cooperate with the Russian authorities, and when the ZSU liberated Kherson, she and her children went to the Krasnodar Territory.
In Russia, Sharvarla’s adopted children were sent to a temporary accommodation facility in the village of Kuchugury, where she refused to take care of them. Oleksandr Yakushchenko joined the family of Natalia and Oleksandr Lukashenko from the village of Akhtanizivsk.
Oleksandr Lukashenko stated that the teenager formally lived under their care for only a month, after which he turned 18, so they were not responsible for him. “He just lived with us. We gave him food, you can’t drive the guy out. He had nowhere to go,” he said.
Yakushchenko was 18 years and seven months old at the time of his death. The cause of death, the newspaper reports, was suicide: the teenager hanged himself a few kilometers from the house. The medical examiner told the adoptive parents that at the last moment the teenager probably changed his mind and tried to get out of the trap.
Shortly before his death, he sent a voice message to his friends. “Nobody needs me there. I was made to understand that. I’m ruining everyone’s life. I can’t, I’ll hang myself If I hadn’t been there, no one would have, nah…, problems now, if only I hadn’t come here. I can’t I am very hurt. I don’t know what to do,” the publication quotes Yakushchenko’s message, which is at the disposal of the editors.
As the journalists learned, Oleksandr Yakushchenko’s sister is under the care of another foster family in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory. Her guardian refused to speak to reporters. Oleksandr and Khrystyna Yakushchenko are officially considered missing in Ukraine. According to the publication, the rest of the children deported by Sharvarla also remain in Russia.