From the occupied territory managed to save the mother with four children – Yermak

The authorities of Ukraine were able to return to the controlled territory from the occupied part of the state, a large family – a mother with four children, according to Bring Kids Back UA program, Presidential head Andriy Yermak said on August 12.

“The family lived under constant pressure from the invaders who demanded that the children study under the Russian program at the occupation school, but the mother was able to organize for senior online teaching at the Ukrainian school. For the first time in more than three years, the children finally saw their dad, and now the family was safe, ”the head of the Zelensky office wrote in a telegram.

The age of children – 15, 12, 8 years and a year and a half, added Yermak.

According to the official data of Ukraine, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in Russia during a full -scale war in Russia and the occupied territories. At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets suggested that Russia illegally exported about 150 thousand children from Ukraine, and the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Daria Gerasimchuk called the figure in “several hundred thousand children, ie somewhere 200-300 thousand”.

In March 2023, the International Criminal Court in the Hague issued warrants for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the children’s Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lviv-Belova. They are suspected of committing war crimes – violent deportations and movement of the population, including children, from the occupied territories of Ukraine.

In July 2023, the Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child of Lviv-Belova stated that Russia has “accepted” about 4.8 million inhabitants of Ukraine since the beginning of a full-scale invasion, of which more than 700,000 were children. According to her, most Ukrainian children allegedly came to Russia with their parents or other relatives.