Key points:
- Ukraine has returned another group of children aged between 8 months and 17 years from occupied Kherson region.
- The occupying authorities persecuted the children’s families and tried to isolate them.
- All those rescued are safe and receiving the necessary assistance.
- Since the beginning of 2026, 19 children have been returned from occupied Kherson region.
Another group of children and teenagers has been returned to Ukraine-controlled territory from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region. This was reported by the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.
Among those evacuated are girls and boys aged between 8 months and 17 years. According to Prokudin, some of them have suffered psychological abuse and persecution.
Among those rescued is an 11-year-old girl whom the occupying authorities tried to place in a boarding school. A criminal case was opened against her mother and she was illegally deprived of her parental rights after it was discovered that she was serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
– Head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Oleksandr Prokudin.
It was also possible to evacuate boys aged 5 and 11, whom the Russian military repeatedly took to the district centre for so-called ‘trials’. There, the children were interrogated, humiliated and mocked in front of their father.
All the rescued children are now safe. They are receiving the necessary medical, psychological and social assistance.
Since the beginning of 2026, 19 children have been returned from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
It is noted that the evacuation was carried out as part of the Ukrainian President’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative with the assistance of the Save Ukraine team.
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