Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine

<p>A deal freezing frontlines would be unacceptable for Serhiy Serdiuk, who was taken to Georgia in handcuffs with his family after refusing to teach the Russian curriculum</p><p>Earlier this year, Serhiy Serdiuk was deported from Russia, along with his wife and daughter. He was given a 40-year ban from re-entering the country.</p><p>Serdiuk’s home town of Komysh-Zoria, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, was part of the territory occupied in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion in spring 2022. According to Moscow, it is now part of Russia. And because Serdiuk, the headteacher of a local school, refused to work for the new authorities, they decided he had no place living there.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/21/banned-from-home-for-40-years-deportation-russia-latest-move-to-cleanse-occupied-ukraine">Continue reading...</a>