Ukraine returned home 11 children from the occupied territories and Russia
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Ukraine returned home 11 children from the occupied territories and Russia

Office of the President of Ukraine
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With the help and mediation of Qatar, Ukraine managed to return 11 Ukrainian children from Russia and the territories temporarily occupied by Russia.

What is known about the return of 11 Ukrainian children

According to representatives of the President's Office, children aged 2 to 16 were returned to Ukraine.

The work for the reunification of families was carried out in cooperation with the Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, within the framework of the approved plan of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Bring Kids Back UA.

What is known about the return of abducted by Russia children to Ukraine

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

The founder of Save Ukraine Mykola Kuleba, the founder of Save Ukraine, said in an interview with Online.UA that during the ten years of the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine, according to his calculations, Crimea, Donbas, the newly occupied territories are about one and a half million children.

From 15 to 20% of the child population of Ukraine found themselves under the power of Russia in 10 years. About half a million children lived in Crimea alone. There were a million children in Donbas, two-thirds of them were under occupation in 2014, Kuleba notes.

He adds that there are no statistics on how many of them moved to the territory of Ukraine or other countries.

However, after calculating the statistics from the occupied territories during the full-scale invasion, we can say that more than a million children ended up under the rule of the Russians, either in occupation or displaced to Russia.

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