Successfully returned children from occupied territories

• Four children have been returned from the occupied territories of Ukraine.
• Among them is a 15-year-old girl who reported being persecuted.
• Since the beginning of the war, Russia has deported over 19,500 children.

This is reported by RBC Ukraine, Ukrinform.

In Ukraine, four more children have successfully returned from temporarily occupied territories as part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative. This was announced by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak.

Among the returned children is a 15-year-old girl who restored her Ukrainian views, wearing a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt to a Russian school. For this, she reported persecution and physical abuse, and her teachers threatened her with the loss of parental rights.

They also returned a 4-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother, whose parents threatened to take the children away due to their refusal to study in a Russian school. A 17-year-old boy escaped from a mobile unit of the Russian army, although he had already received a summons to join the army.

"I am grateful to the Save Ukraine team and other partners for their help in rescuing these children. We are fulfilling the president's task — to return all children," Yermak noted.

Deportation of Ukrainian children

According to Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has deported over 19,500 children from Ukraine. These figures are approximate, and the actual number of abducted children may be higher. Meanwhile, thousands of Ukrainian children have been successfully returned home.

The deportation of Ukrainian children has become a reason for the International Criminal Court in The Hague to issue orders for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and others for the crime of child abduction of Mariia Levieva-Bielova.

In addition, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has approved a draft law in the first reading that provides for accountability for illegal transfer and use of children in military objectives by representatives of the invading state.

Tags: Ukraine/Politics