Despite all the threats, thanks to the efforts of volunteers, families were able to return their children to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Another 15 children were returned from territories temporarily captured by Russian troops. They left Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The founder of the charity organization Save Ukraine, Nikolai Kuleba, announced this on Friday, November 15.
He noted that thanks to the collaboration with Bring Kids Back UA, Ukrainian volunteers were able to evacuate children, some of whom had already been given summonses by the occupiers.
“Currently, all children and their families are safe and receiving the necessary help in our centers,” said Kuleba.
He also recounted several stories of children forced to live under labor.
“Vitalina, who was in the last stage of pregnancy, could not leave her village when the invaders came that she had to get Russian documents for the child so that he would not be forced to attend a Russian school and learn propaganda poetry, and at the age of 18 he was given a choice: take Russian citizenship or go to Ukraine on foot Kirill was given a call to join the army when he was only 17 years old, saying that he was now a citizen. Russian Federation,” said by Kuleba.
Kuleba added that a total of 538 children were returned from the occupied territories.
We remind you that six Ukrainian children, together with their mothers, returned from the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
It was also reported that nine teenagers and a 20-year-old boy were returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory from the occupied territories and Russia.
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