A Russian woman whose son was killed while fighting for Russia against Ukraine is attempting to adopt a Ukrainian child who was abducted from an occupied region, The Kyiv Independent reports.

Olga Dorokhina, a native of Yelets in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, who moved to Crimea following its annexation by Russia, told the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne that she “found her daughter,” a 4-year-old girl from Kherson Oblast, a region of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia.

According to Suspilne, Dorokhina’s husband is a veteran of the Chechen war and a former employee of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service. Her son, Vladislav Dorokhin, joined the 810th Marine Brigade and fought in the invasion of Ukraine.

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