As part of the initiative of the President of Ukraine, Bring Kids Back UA managed to return 15 Ukrainian children who were under occupation and their families were subjected to persecution and pressure.
This was reported by Dariya Zarivna, Communications Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and Chief Operating Officer of Bring Kids Back UA.
Among those rescued is a family where the mother refused to receive Russian documents, which led to threats to take away her children and force them to attend a Russian school.
Three 17-year-old boys fled after being issued draft notices for the Russian army, and one of them was even kidnapped by the occupiers and forcibly taken to the enlistment office.
A little boy in a kindergarten was severely bullied just for being Ukrainian, and a baby born during the war was denied medical care for almost a year and a half by Russians because his mother insisted on a Ukrainian certificate.
Two other children, after losing their mothers, ended up in a Russian orphanage, where they were being prepared for adoption into Russian families.
"I thank Save Ukraine for their assistance in organising this rescue mission and for the fact that Ukrainian children have finally returned to their families. We will not stop until all Ukrainian children are at home, safe and close to those who love them," Zarivna wrote in a telegram.
- More than 4,000 children from the TOT of Ukraine were taken by Russians to study in schools in Crimea.