Five more children, two girls and three boys, were returned from the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson Region.
Five more children back home from the occupation
The head of Kherson Regional Military Administration (RMA), Oleksandr Prokudin, reported that the youngest child is four years old, and the oldest is 16. There is also one orphan among the rescued children. They are now in a safe place and receiving the necessary treatment.
In total, since the beginning of the year, it has been possible to return 25 children from the Kherson region.
How many children did Ukraine lose during ten years of war
The founder of Save Ukraine NGO, Mykola Kuleba, said in an interview with Online.UA that during the 10 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 said.
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, over a million children ended up under the power of the Russians, either in the occupation or abducted to Russia.
