24 Ukrainian children abducted by Russians return home

This was reported by the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin.

"Twenty-four more children from the Kherson region are finally home. Today I met them in Kherson to talk to them and give them gifts," the head of the region wrote.

It is reported that the Russian forces arranged a 13-hour interrogation of Ukrainian children and forced them to participate in a propaganda report. 

"This is one of the most difficult rescue missions. But the main thing is that now the children are home with their families. They are brave enough to live, brave enough to be happy again," Prokudin emphasized.

Volunteers of the Save Ukraine Charitable Foundation helped to exchange the young Ukrainians from Russian captivity.

The head of the regional military administration emphasized that all Ukrainians illegally detained by Russia would be returned home. 

• On March 18, Ukrainian Security service head Vasyl Maliuk said that law enforcement agencies are investigating 16,000 cases of deportation of Ukrainian children. In early March, experts noted that Russia had deported about 730,000 Ukrainian children.

• The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning Russia's human rights violations in Ukraine, including the deportation of children from the temporarily occupied territories.

• Russia continues to abuse the powers and privileges of a permanent member of the UN Security Council to spread disinformation about the large-scale abduction and illegal forced deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children.  

• On April 10, the Ukrainian Security service served a notice of suspicion to a collaborator who helped Russia deport more than 1,000 Ukrainian children.  

• The Russian Federation illegally detained 4,396 Ukrainian orphans in the temporarily occupied territories and illegally deported them to Russia, but an international coalition is already being formed to return them.