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Southern California father will go to Ukraine in search of son allegedly abducted by mother

People examine the damage to a residential building in Mostytska Street, which got hit by a rocket, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

LOS ANGELES — Cesar Quintana held his 2-year-old son Alexander at an airport in Kyiv, Ukraine. Alexander was born in Orange County, but on that day in December, authorities told Quintana he would not be allowed to leave the country with his son and would have to surrender the boy to his grandmother in Ukraine.

A year earlier, Quintana's estranged wife, Antonina Aslanova, had abducted their son from his Aliso Viejo apartment amid their divorce and fled to her home country, Orange County prosecutors say. She took Alexander to Mariupol, the port city that is

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