A Ukrainian grandmother came to Kazakhstan to collect her grandson. Instead, she was detained at Russia’s request.

Ukrainian grandmother Liubov Rozhanska was apprehended at Kazakhstan's Astana airport after arriving from Istanbul, where she had traveled to reclaim her grandson. She is currently held in a pretrial detention center, with a court hearing scheduled within the next three days. Russia had requested her detention via the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Her legal counsel, Alexey Pryanishnikov, stated that Rozhanska was being held for potential extradition to Russia, where she is under investigation for child abduction. Rozhanska had flown to Kazakhstan to collect her grandson, who was set to be brought there from Russia following a series of events. The child, born in 2018 during Rozhanska's daughter Alla Andreyeva's first marriage, was taken by her second husband to the Kaliningrad region in 2021.

Andreyeva subsequently renounced both her Ukrainian and the child's citizenship, becoming a Russian citizen in 2022. In 2025, Ukraine's Supreme Court determined that the child should reside in Odesa, following a lawsuit filed by the boy's father. In the summer of 2026, Rozhanska's relatives informed her that they would hand over the child to her, but preparations for her arrest were already underway.

The Kaliningrad office of Russia's Federal Security Service had already prepared paperwork for her inclusion on a wanted list and sought her extradition. Rozhanska's custody was ordered by the Kaliningrad Tsentralny District Court on August 27, with her lawyers deeming her detention as the result of a "fairly well-planned operation" orchestrated by the FSB.