An 8-year-old boy who went missing in Mykolaiv region has been found

An 8-year-old boy, Ivan Boyko, who had left home in the village of Novopavlivka, has been found in the Vradiivka community in the Mykolaiv region. The boy is safe, and the search has been called off.

The child, born in 2018, left his home on Zarichna Street. He was last seen at around 1 a.m. Today, November 15, at about 10:40 a.m., his mother, a resident of Novopavlivka, contacted Police Station No. 2 of the Pervomaisk District Police Department and reported her son missing.

After the mother contacted them, police began searching for the child and appealed to local residents for help. Police posted information about the boy’s disappearance on their Facebook page (facebook.com).

It has not yet been disclosed where exactly Ivan was or under what circumstances he was found.

We previously reported:

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• Body of missing 11-year-old boy found in the Southern Bug in Mykolaiv region — police report
• After a misunderstanding with her mother, an 11-year-old Mykolaiv resident left home — police found her
• She ran away to Kyiv for a “better life”: schoolgirl from Mykolaiv region returned home
• In Mykolaiv, patrol officers rescued a missing boy who had climbed out through a window!