Ukraine regains five children from Russian-occupied Kherson region

A 14-year-old orphan girl and four other children and their parents were returned to the controlled territory of Ukraine from the occupied left bank of the Kherson region.

The head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported this.

He noted that the 14-year-old girl lived with her grandmother-guardian, but she died, and the child was left alone in the occupation.

"It's difficult to imagine what the girl was experiencing and feeling. However, today, she is safe on Ukrainian land, where she will be cared for. This child is one of the lucky few who were able to return from the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region," Prokudin said.

Four more children and their parents managed to leave with her. These are two families. It was possible to return them thanks to the efforts of the charitable organization Save Ukraine, to which the children's parents appealed for help.

According to the regional military administration, since the beginning of this year, 16 children have been returned from the occupied part of the Kherson region.

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Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression, the soldiers of the enemy army have been taking Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and the territories controlled by them. Ukraine's National Resistance Center created a map of the camps to which children are sent.

In addition, the national resistance reports that the Russian occupiers are detaining children in the temporarily occupied territories to pressure their parents.

It is also known that the Russians are recruiting Crimean schoolchildren to the "Unarmy."

As reported by Ombudsman Lubinets, the deportation of more than 19,500 Ukrainian children has been officially confirmed.

Russia is reluctant to make contact regarding the return of deported children in Ukraine; in addition, there are known cases of adoption of young Ukrainians by Russian families, even though relatives are waiting for them at home.

As previously reported by Rubryka, Ukraine, and Canada launched the work of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children.

International detectives searched for eight Ukrainian children whom the Russian invaders took from the occupied territories: for this purpose, about 60 investigators from 23 countries were involved.

With the participation of the Ministry of Reintegration, another child was returned from the territory of the Zaporizhzhia region, temporarily captured by the Russian invaders.