Two more children, who were forcibly taken from the Kherson region to the Krasnodar region by Russian war criminals of the occupying army of the Russian Federation, were returned to Ukraine.
What is known about the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
According to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of Kherson RMA, we are talking about teenagers aged 16-17. They are a boy and a girl who lived in Krynky.
After the Ukrainian military conducted a successful operation to liberate the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Russian occupiers forcibly took Ukrainian children to the Krasnodar region.
According to the head of the RMA, the families have already reunited with the children after their return to Ukraine.
What is known about the return of other Ukrainian children
The Save Ukraine team managed to rescue four Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories and the Russian Federation. The children finally met their relatives after a long separation.
The founder of NGO Save Ukraine, Mykola Kuleba, reported that four more Ukrainian children were rescued from the temporarily occupied territories and the Russian Federation.
According to him, the children finally met their relatives after a long separation. Some of them had not seen each other for almost two years.
In total, this is already the 15th rescue mission of Save Ukraine, and the entire team managed to return 231 Ukrainian children from the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories.
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 "Abducted Childhood" film, children and their parents openly share their own stories: some of them were in captivity, some were forcibly taken to a "rehabilitation camp", some were separated from their parents during the so-called filtering measures.
It is important 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 illegally remove children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. 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.
