Ukraine returns five more families with children from occupied part of Kherson region
Photo: Ukraine returned five more families with children from the occupied part of the Kherson region (Getty Images)
Five more families with children have been successfully returned from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional State Administration.
"Five more families have returned from the temporarily occupied Kherson region to territory controlled by Ukraine. They are raising eight children—five boys and three girls, aged between 6 and 14 years," Prokudin reported.
According to him, the children are now safe with their parents.
The return of these families was facilitated by the Save Ukraine charity organization.
The head of the Regional State Administration noted that since the beginning of 2024, 181 children from the occupied Kherson region have been successfully returned to territory controlled by Ukraine.
Deportation of Ukrainian children
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russians have been mass deporting Ukrainian children to Belarus, Russia, and occupied Crimea. They are also holding Ukrainians in temporarily seized territories.
According to Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, Russia has illegally deported over 19,000 Ukrainian children.
It should be noted that the deportation of Ukrainian children was a key reason for the International Criminal Court in The Hague issuing arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova.
