Syrets Metro Station is a Kyiv location central to the investigation’s account of where brothers Itkul Zumbayev and Karakul Zumbayev were last seen. Situated near Babi Yar, it becomes a point of departure for tracing the boys’ disappearance and connecting events in Ukraine with a case being investigated in Stockholm.

Setting and identification

The station is identified in a phone conversation between Jeanette Kihlberg and Ukrainian police officer Iwan Lowynsky. When Jeanette asks where the boy disappeared, Lowynsky names Syrets and clarifies that he means Syrets station, near Babi Yar. The exchange gives the station a precise role in the investigation: it is not merely a place in Kyiv, but a reported last-known location.

Connection to the missing brothers

Jeanette follows up by asking whether two boys had gone missing from Syrets station. Lowynsky confirms that the missing children were brothers, Itkul and Karakul Zumbayev, and that both were child prostitutes. The confirmation expands the inquiry from the disappearance of an individual boy to the linked cases of two vulnerable children. The station anchors their shared disappearance to a specific place, while the details of their relationship and exploitation establish the stakes of locating what happened to them.

Role in the investigation

The information reaches the Stockholm investigators through a direct exchange with Ukrainian police, making Syrets a cross-border investigative lead. Jens Hurtig listens as Jeanette seeks a clear answer, and the conversation pauses after Lowynsky confirms the brothers’ disappearance. A colleague’s remark contrasts a disappearance from a metro station in one part of the world with a discovery elsewhere; Jeanette’s sharp response brings the seriousness of the case back into focus. Syrets thus marks one end of a geographically dispersed investigation, linking the boys’ last reported whereabouts near Babi Yar to the broader search for the truth about the murdered child.