Children and teenagers were returned from the occupation: the youngest of them was almost taken away from the mother by the Russians

After returning, the children receive the necessary assistance

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It was possible to return a group of eight children from the Russian occupation to the territory controlled by Ukraine. Some of them experienced harassment, threats of separation from their families and witnessed interrogations of relatives.

Stories of little Ukrainians told in the Bring Kids Back initiative.

The smallest Yaroslav only a year and a half – the Russians almost took him away from his mother at a filtration point. The child was going to be separated from the mother because the woman found a contact with a soldier of the Armed Forces in the woman’s phone.

It was possible to leave the occupation Myroslava together with the family. After the start of a full-scale war, he and his family were taken to a hangar under the guise of “evacuation”, where they were forced to obtain Russian documents.

A 17-year-old girl ended up in the controlled territory Polina. Once the Russians broke into her family’s house. The girl witnessed how the occupiers brutally beat and interrogated her relatives.

In schools under occupation, where Russian programs were implemented, a 16-year-old girl was bullied for speaking Ukrainian Gold and 13-year-old Eve.

“The occupiers forcibly enrolled Eva in the “movement of the first” – an organization that militarizes children and prepares them for service in the army of the aggressor state.

Their older adult sister with a child was also “evacuated” by the occupiers to Russia, where she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. – said Bring Kids Back.

A 10-year-old managed to leave the occupation Matthew. The boy’s father refused Russian documents and independently taught his son at home according to the Ukrainian school curriculum. Matvyi was hidden at home and was not allowed to go outside, so that the boy would not be forced to attend educational institutions, where education according to the Russian system was introduced.

“Today, all the rescued children are safe, they are receiving help with the restoration of documents, psychological support and the necessary support to start a new stage of their lives.” – added in the initiative.

Previously in Ukraine returned A 20-year-old guy who spent almost half of his life in occupied Crimea.