Deborah Richardson

And I said, no, I haven't.

I said, don't tell me you've heard from Sasha, which was his little boy.

And he goes, I have.

And I said, how?

And he goes, we found him on Facebook.

So that night I went home and I was searching for as many Yuri Kuchenko's as I could find around the world.

And I think I found around about 20 odd

and sent out all these messages and hoping frantically, you know, over the course of the next few days that I'd get a message and there was nothing.

So I kind of thought, okay, well, that's the end of it for me.

Nothing, nothing.

And then 2018, so about a year later, I wake up one morning and here's a Facebook message and it says to me, hello, my Australian mummy, Deborah, it's me, it's Yuri.

Hello.

And in that moment, I remember tears springing to my eyes.

Then I remember having this sense of, am I getting scammed?

You know, he's now a man.

Well, he ended up saying to me, I'm at work when I get home tonight, I will write to you.

And he did.

And not only did he write to me and tell me he was now a policeman in Kiev.

He took a photo of his bedside table where he still had our family portrait sitting there.

It was beautiful.