To Ukraine, another five children were returned from the temporarily occupied territories and Russia
Ukraine has returned five more Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories and Russia.
This was reported in Telegram by the Head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak.
According to him, "among the rescued is a 10-year-old boy who remained in occupation for a long time with his sick grandmother. When the war began, his mother was in another city. She tried several times, risking everything, to take her son away on her own but was unsuccessful. Now the family is together again and safe in Ukraine."
As Yermak emphasized, this return was made possible through efforts within the framework of the Ukrainian President’s initiative Bring Kids Back UA, particularly the Ombudsman’s Office.
He separately thanked the State of Qatar for mediating the return of the five children.
As noted in Telegram by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, the children are aged 11 to 16 years. They were returned from the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhya regions.
Among those returned is a 12-year-old girl whose parents are divorced, and her father is a prisoner of war in Russia. During the three years of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the girl moved twice and had conflicts with her mother. Over the past year, her mental and physical health has deteriorated significantly.
"Fortunately," emphasized Lubinets, "we helped the grandmother gain custody of the girl. Going forward, the child will be provided with all the necessary assistance."
Also among the returned children is a boy who lived with his father but systematically suffered abuse from him. Despite the evidence of physical violence against the child, local ’social services’ were slow to help. "The mother tried to take the boy away on her own, but her attempts were unsuccessful. Only through appeal to our office and the involvement of the constant mediator, the State of Qatar, were the mother and her son reunited," noted the Commissioner.
He also added that the staff of the Ombudsman’s Office, within the framework of examining requests for the return of these children to Ukraine, constantly communicated with applicants and assisted them in processing the necessary documents for return.
29 March 2025 ã., 12:35
