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A conflict in Kyiv between civic activist and Master of Global Politics Oksana Khomey and her former partner Arkadiy Suslo, who works at the IT company EPAM Ukraine, has drawn public attention. The woman claims that on 8 November the man forcibly took their five-month-old daughter and left with the child in an unknown direction. Khomey wrote about this on Facebook and told journalists from the publication "Glavcom." The editorial office also contacted the child’s father.
- Help find the child! On 8 November, the father Suslo Arkadiy Vasylovych, an employee of EPAM Ukraine, took my 5-month-old child, Suslo Anna, born in 11.05.2026, and drove off in an unknown direction together with two accomplices in the crime. We live separately from 6.09.2026 due to his ongoing psychological domestic violence. The incident occurred in the city of Kyiv. I called the police. A criminal case has been opened against him. I don’t know where my child is now or whether she is all right, the woman wrote.
According to Khomey, that day she, her daughter, her mother, her former partner, and his sister went for a walk together in a park. However, the end of the meeting was accompanied by a conflict. The woman says that on the way home the man began provoking an argument. When the group reached the house, Suslo allegedly grabbed the child suddenly, pushed the mother aside, and put the girl into a car that was waiting nearby. Another man was behind the wheel, whom Khomey preliminarily identifies as the child’s grandfather.
Seeing that the car was about to leave, the mother tried to stop it and prevent her daughter from being taken away. She says she even lay down on the car’s hood, but the driver drove around her and continued moving. After that the car disappeared from view.
She also emphasizes separately that since birth the girl had always been with her and had never once spent the night without her mother. Therefore, the sudden separation, she believes, could negatively affect the infant’s condition.
After the incident the woman published a post on social media describing the circumstances of her daughter’s disappearance, naming the participants in the event, and recounting her actions after the conflict. She added that her police report was registered on 8 November under EO No. 97149. Information about possible instances of psychological, economic, and physical violence has also been provided to law enforcement. In addition, a neighbor gave testimony confirming the forced taking of the child, the use of physical force, and the presence of other people.
To confirm her right to live together with her daughter, Oksana Khomey cites the following documents: an opinion from the guardianship and custody authority of Shevchenkivskyi District of Kyiv;
a housing conditions inspection report; a homeowners association certificate stating the child’s permanent address of residence with her mother. In addition, the woman denies that she interfered with the father’s communication with the daughter. She claims she did not forbid him from meeting the child, and as proof published a fragment of correspondence in which the parties agreed on a joint walk.
The woman urged the National Police, the juvenile prevention units, the Interior Ministry, and the head of Kyiv police, Dmytro Shumeyko, to respond to the situation. The mother’s main demand is to establish where the child is, check her condition, and ensure the girl’s return home.
Glavcom journalists were also able to contact Arkadiy Suslo to get his explanation regarding Khomey’s statements. The man denied the kidnapping accusations and assured that the daughter is with him.
- There was no kidnapping of the child, the child is with me. My wife is probably ill in some way; she constantly twists everything and manipulates. Contact the police; they will give you the official position on this event, Suslo said.
When the journalist asked why the child, who had previously always been with her mother, was taken in this manner, the man declined to comment on the circumstances and ended the phone call.
EPAM Ukraine responded to the accusations against its employee.
- The child’s safety and health are the most important things in this situation. Any forms of violence and violations of the law are unacceptable. Law enforcement authorities must clarify all details of the parents’ relationship and determine the child’s whereabouts. The company is ready to cooperate with law enforcement bodies and authorized child protection structures and will act within the law, the statement said.
On 8 November Ukrainian singer Iryna Fedyshyn for the first time spoke in detail about the tragic circumstances of losing her unborn daughter.
In August in Zhytomyr region a 2,5-year-old boy who had been searched for all night was found alive.
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