Yermak: Occupied Crimea managed to save the mother with five children

The Ukrainian authorities were able to return a large family – a mother with five children under the control of Bring Kids Back UA, a large family – a mother with five children, Presidential Office Andriy Yermak said on August 7.

“In the occupation, the woman faced pressure and threats by the occupying power, in particular, the Russian police threatened her and the children of criminal prosecution for the women’s subscriptions found on the phone for Ukrainian news channels. Realizing that it was dangerous to stay dangerous, the family went to a long and difficult route through several countries to return home. Now the family is already in Kiev and is provided with everything necessary for integration – from working with psychologists to the arrangement of children in school and kindergarten, ” – wrote the head of the Zelensky office in a telegram.

He thanked for his assistance in the rescue of the family from the Presidential Representation to the ARC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Border Service.

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.