Seven more children left the temporarily occupied territories - Lubinets
Kyiv • UNN
Another seven children and their families returned from the Russian-occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to the Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Ukraine managed to return seven more children with their families from the temporarily occupied territories. This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets in Telegram, UNN reports.
According to him, the children and their families left Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
Some families experienced real horror during the occupation and witnessed Russians looting the homes of local residents, forcing them to take Russian passports, committing violence against Ukrainians, and forcing children to study at school according to the canons of the "Russian world." And families with teenage boys left the TOT so that their children would not be taken to the Russian army later
According to Lubinets, the children's parents said that the prospects for the future in the TOT did not fit into their families' vision of life, so they decided to move to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
Representatives of the Ombudsman's office, government agencies and charitable organizations are currently communicating with them and helping them. They will have to restore their documents, enroll their children in educational institutions and clubs, find jobs, etc.
The Ombudsperson thanked the Charitable Foundation "Rokada", NGO "The Right Way-Kharkiv", Charitable Foundation "Smile UA", UNICEF, Charitable Foundation "Voices of Children" and the Coordination Center for the Development of Family-Based Forms of Child Care for their support in the return of the children.
Addendum
On March 29 , UNN reported that three more children aged 5, 11, and 14 had been returned to Ukraine-controlled territory from the temporarily occupied Kherson region.
