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#Bring_Kids_Back_UA: Pupils of the #Novopetrovsk Special School, forcibly deported to #Russia in 2022, have been returned to #Ukraine

Among the kidnapped children were orphans and children deprived of parental care, said the head of the Office of the President, #Andriy_Yermak.

During the occupation of part of the #Mykolaiv region, the school principal tried to protect the children from the #Russians and sought ways to get them to the territory

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

⚡️🇺🇦 Eleven #Ukrainian children have been successfully returned to #Ukraine from the temporarily occupied territories and #Russia as part of President #Zelenskyy's #Bring_Kids_Back_UA initiative. The effort was carried out by the Office of the #Ukrainian Ombudsman with the mediation of the State of #Qatar.

The youngest child returned today, which is 10 years old, and the oldest is 17.

Seven children aged 3 to 17 were returned to #Ukraine from the occupied territories

According to Ombudsman #Dmytro_Lubinets, four families from the #Kherson, #Zaporizhia and #Luhansk regions have finally broken free. This was achieved within the framework of the implementation of the approved action plan of the President of #Ukraine #Bring_Kids_Back_UA.

The head of the #OPU, #Andrey_Yermaka, said that the families faced persecution: adults were forced to undergo repeated interrogations,