Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] The difficulties arose at the borders. At the Belarus border, for example, I was interrogated for two hours. Why am I going to Russia? For what reason? They had all sorts of questions for me. Then there's Domodedovo in Russia.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] Changes have taken place. When he went there, he was 16 years old. He was like a child, but when I was removing him from there, he was like an adult. He was looking at me. It was my son, but he was a more mature person who had suffered a lot, who had gone through many things.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] I had no idea how to get him home until I received information that there is an organization, Save Ukraine, and that this organization helps to bring back Ukrainian children. I contacted them and I worked with them. When I was on my way, I was working with Save Ukraine, and they were with me from the beginning to the end.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] My son called me and told me that he had been taken from his home and that he was in Oleshky, which was formerly Tsiurupynsk. It's on the left bank of the Kherson region. They were waiting for buses to take them to Crimea.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] While he was on the road, there was still an ability to talk to him, but then there were interruptions in communication for about two months and I had no idea what was happening with him. After two months, he contacted me and he told me that he was in Crimea and that he was in a detention facility.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:] The scariest thing was when I arrived to pick up my son. It was in the village of Lazurne, on the left bank of the city of Kherson. It was the most difficult part, because I was taken to a basement for interrogation. They were putting me through a lie detector.