How one brave Ukrainian teenager went on daring secret mission to rescue her brother, 11, from Putin’s child snatchers
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A BRAVE Ukrainian teen saved her brother from Vladimir Putin’s child snatchers after he was illegally adopted by a “brainwashing” Russian family. Ksenia, then 18, and Serhii Koldin, from Kharkiv, were separated after she was forced to attend a Russian school and he was sent to one of Putin’s sick "zombie" child camps in Krasnodar.
![[Serhii alongside his sister Ksenia Koldin went on a secret mission to Russia to save him from Vlad's child snatchers]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2022-ksenia-forcibly-sent-russian-958337557.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Young Ksenia was able to make her way home from the occupied territory but vowed to take the perilous journey into Russia and not return without her brother. After five weeks inside the camp, Serhii was sent to a “brainwashing” pro-Russian foster family who refused all contact with his loving sister.
![[In an exclusive interview with the Sun, Ksenia revealed her incredible story]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_0767eb.png?strip=all&w=960)
Ksenia cannot reveal the details of her secret mission to save Serhii but says she is thrilled to have him home for Christmas. Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Ksenia said: "I’m so happy that we came back because I really wanted to return to Ukraine while I was in Russia.
"I even made a firm promise to myself that I would only return to Ukraine with him[Serhii] because a brother or sister is the closest person in our lives. “I believe no matter how old we get they should be by our side…with a life like this, you never know if there will be a tomorrow if you’ll even wake up tomorrow.
![[Children forced into the camps are made to sing the Russian national anthem and speak Russian in a bid to brainwash them]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ring-evil-putin-s-zombie-941416965.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Shocking reports and accounts of Putin’s sinister child camps have amounted to an arrest warrant being issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Vlad and his evil child snatcher chief Maria Lvova-Belova. The pair are wanted for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children into Russia - attempting to brainwash them, rid them of their Ukrainian identity and handing them Russian citizenship.
![[Chilling pictures showed a torture chamber in Kherson where children were allegedly abused]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/camp.png?strip=all&w=815)
