Remember the blogger who was detained at 17 for scamming money for a child with SMA? His 38-year-old beloved is pregnant
Blogger Yauheniya Tarasenka helped Mikhail Drahun run prize giveaways. The woman admitted to her subscribers that she is pregnant. Now she is waiting not only for her beloved to be free, but also for a child from him.
Mikhail Drahun and Yauheniya Tarasenka are popular bloggers in Hrodna. In 2024, the couple even participated in the pro-government reality show "Bloggers' Factory".
But many learned about them after a high-profile scandal involving a charity fundraiser.
According to official information, together with his beloved, Mikhail offered subscribers to participate in a lottery for 10 rubles, where the main prizes were smartphones or a car. The organizers stated that only a small portion of the money would go to prizes, and the rest of the amount would be donated for the treatment of a boy. They were raising money for eight-year-old Vania Statsenka, who suffers from a severe genetic disease — Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The necessary injection for the boy cost 2.9 million dollars.
In total, the bloggers collected 1.5 million rubles. But they transferred only 200,000 rubles to the mother of the sick child, and spent 315,000 on prizes for stream participants. The rest was used for a lavish lifestyle.
Mikhail was imprisoned when he was still 17.
He was tried this July. Drahun was found guilty of causing property damage through deception and abuse of trust, as well as defamation. In addition, about 130,000 rubles, which the court recognized as income from the crime, were confiscated in favor of the state.
Mikhail was sentenced to one year and six months of imprisonment.
Drahun has been in a pre-trial detention center since mid-December 2025, and since for minors one day in a pre-trial detention center counts as two, he doesn't have much time left until his release.
Yauheniya shares with her subscribers on her Telegram channel and new Instagram how she supports her beloved.
Today, the 38-year-old blogger admitted that she is pregnant. She also shared a dramatic story of her motherhood. She says that in her first marriage, she could not get pregnant for 7 years. And when her first son was 2 years old, she became pregnant again — unfortunately, it all ended tragically: the fetus died at 32 weeks.
Last January, Tarasenka talked about her divorce. By the way, Yauheniya's ex-husband is also a popular blogger with 133,000 subscribers.
Now, when asked about her plans, pregnant Yauheniya answers: "To resolve all the outstanding issues, wait for my beloved, and simply be happy."
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