Ukraine returns six more children from occupied territories - OP. PHOTO
Six children who had been forcibly transferred to the temporarily occupied territories by the Russians were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
This was reported by Daria Zarivna, communications adviser to the Presidential Office, Censor.NET reports.
"The stories of these children are a vivid illustration of the fact that the Russian Federation is trying to wipe the Ukrainian nation off the face of the earth by all means - through the imposition of propaganda and hatred of Ukraine, through threats to families to take their children away, through the forced mobilisation of our young men into the Russian army," Zarivna said.
The official also spoke about two guys who are now in the government-controlled territory of Ukraine.
"16-year-old Vitalii was skipping school so that he would not be forcibly taken to the city and registered for military service, as was the case with his classmates. The family of 14-year-old Artem was essentially held hostage by the occupation - he was not given documents without which he could not leave. However, when the occupiers kidnapped his mother, it became clear that he had to leave by any means necessary. Fortunately, the boy was taken out, but his father remained under occupation," she said.
Earlier, as part of the same initiative , eight more children aged 6 to 16 were returned from the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Donetsk regions and Crimea.
