Five Ukrainian children were returned from the occupied territories
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Five Ukrainian children were returned from the occupied territories

Oleksandr Prokudin / Kherson OVA
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In the afternoon of December 14, it became known that five more Ukrainian children were returned from the occupation. Now they are all in a safe place and are receiving the necessary help.

Five more children were returned from the occupied territories

As noted, two of the children have families. And they managed to be taken out together with their parents. Three more are children from the category of those who found themselves in difficult life circumstances.

Now, all the children are safe and provided with the necessary help.

Thanks to everyone who works in this very important direction. And brings home our future. In particular, to the Save Ukraine organization, guardianship authorities, children's services of the region, the head of Kherson Regiomal Military Adminstration Oleksandr Prokudin wrote.

What is known about the abduction of Ukrainian children

For Children's Day in 2023, the Online.UA team presented the documentary project "Abducted Childhood", which tells the story of Ukrainian children forcibly deported and abducted to Russia.

In the film "Abducted Childhood", children and their parents openly share their own stories: some of them were in captivity, some were forcibly taken to a "rehabilitation camp", and some were separated from their parents during the so-called filtering measures.

It is essential to understand that during more than a year and a half of full-scale war, Ukraine was able to return less than 400 children. At the same time, Russia claims to have "evacuated" 744,000 Ukrainian children.

Since diplomacy with the aggressor country does not work, Russia continues to remove children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine illegally.

However, this is not an evacuation, as the Russians claim, but a mass kidnapping of minor citizens of Ukraine.

The project documents children's testimonies about war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian people.

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