Ukraine returns 13 more children from the occupied territories of the Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions

Save Ukraine organisation has managed to return 13 more children from the temporarily occupied territories.

Save Ukraine's executive director and former Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, Mykola Kuleba, reported this.

He said that Mykyta, Sashko, and Andrii were taken by their parents to their grandparents on the left bank of the Kherson region, where it was safer at the time. After the liberation of Kherson, the family was separated. The parents of Polina, Taras, and Matvii had different opinions. The father, who has pro-Russian views, forbade his wife to take the children out of the "territory of the Russian Federation." The children were forced to attend a Russian school. Their mother was threatened with deprivation of parental rights.

"Rescuing these children from the occupation was a difficult challenge," Kuleba wrote.

According to him, as a result of 11 missions of the Save Ukraine organisation, 176 children were returned home.

It will be recalled that on September 8, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced the return of nine more children.