In June 2025, #Save_Ukraine helped evacuate them to #Ukrainian-controlled territory. At first, #Solomiia did not recognize her mom, but then she hugged her tightly.
"The girl I remember before the war and the one I see now - well, they feel like two different people. Before the war, she was a happy, curious, active child. Now she’s more guarded. #Solomiia can’t explain her wishes and desires. I’m learning from my mom how to understand my daughter," #Marichka shared.
In June 2025, #Save_Ukraine helped return #Solomiya to the territory controlled by #Ukraine. At first, the girl did not recognize her mother, but then hugged her tightly.
"The girl I remember before the war and the one I see now — well, they seem like two different people. Before the war, she was a happy, curious, active child. Now she is more reserved," said the girl's mother, #Marichka.
Now #Solomiya goes back to school and is gradually recovering from what she experienced.
She is one of tens of thousands of #Ukrainian children who have become participants in #Russia’s propaganda programs. They are taught to operate drones, sent thousands of kilometers from home, and presented to #Putin in military uniforms as a "successful project."
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according to #Nikolai_Kuleba, head of the #Save_Ukraine organisation.
"The way they describe our children is no different from a slave catalogue. This is real child trafficking in the #21st century, which the world must stop immediately," he said.
Most of the children in this "catalogue" were born before the occupation and had #Ukrainian citizenship. Some of their parents were killed by the #Russian military, while others simply had #Russian documents issued to them to legalise the abduction..
🟢 Another 10-year-old boy was taken away from his grandmother by #Russians when he tried to leave on his own. The occupiers separated them and took the child away in an unknown direction. Thanks to the help of #Ukrainian partners, it was possible to organize an evacuation. Now he is again with his grandmother, safe.
🤝 #Zarivna thanked the #Save_Ukraine team and other partners for their assistance in organizing the rescue mission.
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"It is not about forced displacement or family separation. It is about forced indoctrination and forced change of identity from #Ukrainian to #Russian. And a child has no chance to remain a #Ukrainian child," #Mykola_Kuleba, co-founder of #Save_Ukraine, says.
#Save_Ukraine estimates the number of children deported from #Ukraine to #Russia since 2014 at 1.5 million.
📹: #DW
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Eight children were returned from the temporarily occupied territories of the #Kherson region
According to the head of the #Kherson_OVA, #Oleksandr_Prokudin, 5 families raising children aged 6 to 14 have returned to #Ukraine — five boys and three girls. The children are now safe with their parents and are recovering from the horrors of the #Russian occupation.
According to him, the charity organization "#Save_Ukraine" was involved in returning the families.
In total, the #Save_Ukraine team managed to rescue 405 children from #Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.
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"They beat me so hard that I started to lose consciousness. They tore people's nails off, electrocuted, tortured, and kept people in cages."
Eight more children from the occupied territories have been returned to #Ukraine. According to the #Save_Ukraine charity organization, children from 7 to 17 years old from the occupied part of #Kherson and #Donetsk regions are among them.
Six more children with their families returned from #Russian occupation – #Save_Ukraine
Each of them can not forget the first days of the invasion and the period of occupation. Families survived enemy fighter jets overhead, filtration, and forced passportization. The occupiers forced children to go to #Russian school.
Now they are already safe. In total, the #Save_Ukraine team managed to return 290 children from the temporarily occupied territories.
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