Ukraine returns 12 more children from occupation
Ukraine returns 12 more children from occupation (photo: Getty Images)
Ukraine has successfully returned six families from temporarily occupied territories, including twelve children, according to the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine (MinReintegration).
It is noted that these families had been located in areas of the Kherson region occupied by Russian forces.
The children and their families are now safe. The Ministry added that doctors and psychologists are working with the evacuees.
According to Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, among the evacuees are two boys and four girls aged between 3 and 12 years old.
Representatives of the charity organization Save Ukraine specified that they were evacuated as part of the Bring Kids Back UA plan initiated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Deportation of Ukrainian children
Since the onset of Russia's large-scale military aggression against Ukraine, the Russian army has been regularly deporting Ukrainian children to Crimea, Belarus, or remote regions of Russia.
It has been previously reported that the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children.
Additionally, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated that Russia has illegally deported over 19,000 Ukrainian children.
