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.
Four more Ukrainian children returned home
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.
Today, the children finally met their relatives after a long separation. Some of them had not seen each other for almost two years. Some — the parents could not take them for several months, and the Russians wanted to send the child to a rehabilitation center. Fortunately, these trials are over, and now all the children are safe, Kuleba said.
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", and some were separated from their parents during the so-called filtering measures.
It is essential to understand that in 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.
