Ukraine managed to return 11 more children aged 10 to 17 from the temporarily occupied territories and the russian federation.
This was reported by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrii Yermak.
"Within the framework of the initiative of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Bring Kids Back UA, we managed to return 11 Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories and the russian federation. Their age is from 10 to 17 years old," he wrote in a telegram on Saturday.
According to him, the story of the family, "from which we returned five siblings, was particularly striking. The children were taken to russia, and for a long time there was no information about them. Only later did they themselves contact their adult sister in Ukraine and ask: take us home."
Yermak noted that even after that, the path back was extremely difficult. Russian guardianship authorities exerted pressure, dragging out the process. The return became possible only after more than a year of persistent and painstaking work.
"This story is another reminder: Ukraine does not stop until its children are home," Yermak wrote.
He also expressed gratitude to the State of Qatar for its mediation, as well as to the team of the Office of the Ombudsman of Ukraine for their coordinated and principled work.
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