Yermak reported the rescue of a group of children from the occupied territories

The authorities of Ukraine were able to return a group of children to the Bring Kids Back UA under the program of Bring Kids Back UA, Presidential Head Andriy Yermak reported on August 12.

“Among the rescued ones, a boy whose mom was killed and his father lost his feet during a drone attack; sister and two brothers whose guardians were threatened to select children because of the rejection of Russian documents; fearless teenagers who even at the Russian school sang a banned anthem of Ukraine; a family who lived on a replaced street in a constant fear of death. Some of them finally reunited with their parents after almost three years of separation, ”the head of the Zelensky office in a telegram wrote.

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.