Four children from the Russian-occupied Kherson region were returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory, including a 14-year-old girl with a disability, a 12-year-old boy, and two 15-year-old boys. The children had been forced to attend Russian schools and their parents were forced to obtain Russian passports, with the teenage boys also being put on the military register for potential conscription.
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Four more children from the Kherson region managed to be returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine. This is a 14-year-old girl with a disability, a 12-year-old boy and two 15-year-old boys.
The children were forced to attend a Russian school, and their parents were forced to obtain passports of the aggressor country.
Teenage boys were put on the military register so that they could be drafted into the occupation army later.
Since the beginning of 2024, it has been possible to return 52 children from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.
Four more children have been brought back to Ukrainian-controlled territory from the temporarily occupied part of Kherson Oblast. These are a teenage girl, 14, with a disability, a boy, 12, and two teenage boys, 15.
The parents were reportedly forced to send their children to a Russian school and obtain Russian citizenship. The boys were also enrolled in the military register so that they could be drafted into the Russian occupying forces later.
Four more children were brought back home from Russian-occupied territory in Kherson Oblast
The four children returned included a 14-year-old girl with a disability, and three boys, one aged 12 and two 15-year-olds
The children were forced to attend Russian school, and their parents were made to obtain Russian passports
The teenage boys were required to enter their names in the military register so they could be potentially drafted in the future
Since the beginning of 2024, 52 children have been brought back from Russian-occupied territory in Kherson Oblast
15 children have died as a result of detonation using explosive devices since the beginning of the full-scale war.
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