Nastya, now 17, and her daughter, Melek, were recently moved into a Ukrainian mother-and-child center. They will receive housing, food and basic support, activists who have followed the case say. Nastya’s experience was a central case in an investigation published last week byand its partnersand Investigace.cz. The report detailed how hundreds of children were taken to Turkish hotels under “Childhood Without War,” a mass evacuation program organized by businessman Ruslan Shostak.
Source: OCCRP, 2025-12-13; https://www.occrp.org/en/news/ukrainian-teen-reunited-with-baby-after-yearlong-separation-in-turkey-evacuation-scandal