Village residents in Kherson region saved dozens of orphans from deportation to russia
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Employees of the Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation and residents of the village of Stepanivka in the Kherson region managed to hide more than 50 children from the occupying forces.
TSN reports this.
It should be noted that the center of socio-psychological rehabilitation in the Kherson region houses orphaned children or those who have found themselves in difficult life circumstances.
Its director, Volodymyr Sahaidak, says that the worst thing that happened during the occupation was the fear that the children could be taken by force and taken to russia.
"I understood that there would be a problem when the russians came. Because 52 children in such an institution is a good picture for russia and propagandists. We consulted with the team and started hiding the children," says Volodymyr.
We will remind you that children from orphanages and boarding schools are forcibly taken to the russian federation.
The publication reported that more than 50 children were hidden from the occupiers by the Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation employees and residents of the village of Stepanivka in the Kherson region.
After some time, FSB agents came with russian soldiers to take away the children.
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"The old PCs were broken. They took out everything they needed because they thought there was some secret information. They said that we work according to American methods," the man adds.
The community hid the children; they were all separated into families. Oksana Koval works in this center. She took three children to her home: nine, eight, and three-year-olds.
She told people who asked her where they were from that they were nephews. Just in case someone reports it to the occupiers.
"We took two brothers and a sister to our home. They lived with us for two months. They spend full May and June with us. We looked after them. It was like our family. These children are now in foster care, but I cannot say where they are," Oksana says.
People helped with food.
"Those who understood that we had children we were hiding even tried to help us. They helped with milk, gave it for free, some brought potatoes, and some took them and played with our children. The most difficult thing was that we worried that the russians would come, as we already said. We just wished they didn't come to the house," the woman says.
While people were hiding children, 15 orphans from the Mykolaiv region, brought from the front line in July, remained in the center of social and psychological rehabilitation.
"They lived in the basement and ate what we cooked on the fire. And I could not hide these 15 children. They were under the control of the russians," says the center's director.
Younger children were taken away from another boarding school in Kherson. Natalia, who lives next door, says that she saw russian soldiers taking three, four, and five-year-old children.
"Of course, I worry about them. They are small children. They're just children that were abandoned. We don't know where they are, what happened to them, and where they were taken," the woman says.
