Living alone at the time because his mother was in a clinic, he was transferred to a children’s facility in occupied Crimea, where he says staff pressured him to accept a Russian passport with promises of money and housing. When he refused, he says he was abused and punished, including being held in solitary confinement. Save Ukraine, the NGO that helped him escape, says many abducted Ukrainian children are later funneled into military-style education and indoctrination programs. Now 20, Rostyslav lives in Kyiv, where he hopes to become a photographer, but he says his greatest wish is to reunite with his mother, who remains in Russian-occupied Ukraine.