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13 more children return to Ukraine from Russian occupation
Ukrainska Pravda
Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 23:36
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/12/7419555/
The Save Ukraine foundation has brought back another 13 children from the occupied territories of Kherson,
Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
SOURCE: Save Ukraine; Executive Director of the organisation Mykola Kuleba
DETAILS: This is the 11th rescue mission tgat aimed to bring back children to Ukraine from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories. In the course of those missions, 176 children were returned to Ukraine. The organisation told the press the stories of these children.
QUOTE:
“Olesia’s mother hid her from the occupation authorities and fellow villagers for a whole year, so that no one would know that the girl lived with her, and forced her to study at a Russian school.
Mykyta, Sasha and Andrii were taken by their parents to their grandparents on the left bank [of Dnipro river], where it was safer then. But after the liberation of the right bank, the family was torn apart. Parents waited for liberation to pick up the children, but realised it would not happen any time soon.
After the beginning of the full-scale invasion, divorced parents of Polina, Taras and Matvii had two differing opinions: the mother was very much worried about Ukraine, while the father took a pro-Russian stance. And it was him who forbade the mother from taking the children from the Russia-controlled territory. There, during the occupation, children were forced to go to a Russian school, and their mother was threatened with deprivation of her parental rights.”
BACKGROUND:
• On 26 August, 11 Ukrainian children were brought back to Ukraine from Russia and temporarily occupied territories.
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