Oleh Buriak is the Head of the Zaporizhzhia Raion Administration (in the Zaporizhzhia oblast). He explains that his son was abducted in the late morning of 8 April at a Russian checkpoint in Vasylivka. Vlad was in a car with two women he knows and with three small children. They were heading, together with other cars, towards Zaporizhzhia when all were stopped by the Russian soldiers who came up to each of them, checking who was there and where they were going. Oleh Buriak has learned that the Russians saw Vlad’s telephone and dragged him out of the car.
The car Vlad was driving in was held at the checkpoint for three hours, after which all were released, except the 16-year-old. The Russians “had tablets with them, and they found out that I’m the boy’s father,” Oleh Buriak explains.
The family spent the following 10 days trying privately to secure Vlad’s release. All efforts have been in vain and on 17 April, Oleh Buriak issued an impassioned appeal to the international community to help save his son, whose whereabouts remain unknown. His call was seconded on 18 April by Oleksandr Starukh, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.
The Russian invaders have been abducting public officials; civic activists and journalists since 24 February 2022, with many still missing. This, however, seems to be the first time that they have seized a child.
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