[Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] I would like to add that it depends, of course, on their age and what their attitude is to Ukraine and how they love Ukraine.
I spent nine months in the territory of Russia. I had a specific attitude. No matter what they did, I didn't want to abandon Ukraine. I didn't want to receive Russian citizenship, even though they told me, “You don't have parents and it would be better for you to assimilate, to adapt.” I was refusing it outright, but I know that my brother, who was 12 years old, was more susceptible to the psychological pressure that was placed on him.
We were all in different foster families. He remembers that in Ukraine there were Russians and that there were shellings and bombings. In Russia, it was a peaceful environment, so for him.... I was older, so I understood that it impacted him and I realized even then that maybe he would not be coming back, because there would be all kinds of barriers to his coming back. If parents do want to bring their child back, or if it's a sister or a brother, if the Russians know there is family back in Ukraine, they place an even bigger psychological pressure on them to prevent them from thinking about going back to Ukraine.