Four more children have been returned to their homes as part of the "Bring Kids Back UA" program of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak posted on his Telegram channel, APA reports.
According to Yermak, this return was possible as a result of the international mediation of the state of Qatar and the efforts of the Ukrainian Ombudsman's Office.
According to Ukrainian media, the Russian side initially illegally took these children from a boarding school located in the occupied territory of Ukraine to Russia.
It should be noted that according to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Dmytro Lubynets, more than 19 thousand children have been forcibly taken to Russia since the start of the large-scale offensive against the territory of Ukraine. According to him, about a thousand children have already been returned and work in this direction is continuing.