Ukraine brings back 125 children deported to Russia
Ukraine has brought back 125 children who were illegally taken to Russia from the temporarily occupied territories. In total, Russia kidnapped almost 14,000 Ukrainian children.
Source: Daria Herasymchuk, Ukrainian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation, during the opening of Ukraine Is You project as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos
Quote: "We have managed to identify and verify the data of almost 14,000 children who were kidnapped and deported by the Russian army, and unfortunately, we can say that we only managed to bring 125 of them home. It appears that it is very little, but for each one, the fate of the Ukrainian child, such an important child, is at stake."
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russian troops have killed 456 children in Ukraine, Herasymchuk emphasised.
Quote: "But while our presentation was going on, we got to know that another child was pulled out from under the rubble in the Dnipro city, who was killed by the Ruscists."
According to Herasymchuk, 897 children have been injured due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Quote: "Even if the body was not hurt by the bombings of the Russian Federation, the war affected every Ukrainian child. More than 7.5 million Ukrainian children, who lived on the territory of our country before the beginning of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation into Ukraine, suffered."
The World Economic Forum, which takes place every year in the Swiss resort town of Davos, began on 16 January and will continue until 20 January.
Background: Russians deported more than 13,000 Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation, the children's ombudsman said.
Journalists fight on their own frontline. Support Ukrainska Pravda or become our patron!
