Nine more children returned to Ukraine from temporarily occupied territories
Nine more children have been returned to government-controlled territory of Ukraine, said Daria Zarivna, adviser to the head of the President’s Office.
"As part of the Ukrainian President's initiative Bring Kids Back UA, we managed to return nine more Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories," she wrote on Telegram on Friday.
Zarivna told short stories of three of them. In particular, about 14-year-old Dmytro. His house was next to a Russian firing position, and the family lived under the constant sounds of gunfire. At school, the boy was forced to sing war songs and throw grenades, and some of his classmates were sent to military camps, where they were trained by Wagner fighters.
"We also returned little Kateryna, whose mother was forced to obtain a Russian passport, otherwise she would have been denied medical care during a difficult birth. Another boy, 9-year-old Stas, despite threats and persecution from teachers and the FSB, refused to sing the Russian anthem and participate in militarized events," Zarivna wrote.