Ukraine returns home 9 children from temporarily occupied territories

The head of Ukraine's presidential office Andriy Yermak wrote this on Telegram.

According to the Yermak, 9 Ukrainian children were returned to the government-controlled territory as part of the president's action plan Bring Kids Back UA.

"Our team, together with representatives of the ombudsman's office, has completed another task. Today we met 5 children abducted by Russia: 4 of them are from orphanages (aged 3 to 10) and one 12-year-old girl. Another 4 children had returned from the temporarily occupied territories earlier and had already visited the Center for the Protection of Children's Rights, where they told law enforcement officers about the crimes of the Russians they had witnessed," Yermak writes.

Ukrainian children were forced to go to Russian schools and were told that there was no independent state of Ukraine.

"I am grateful to the entire team, as well as to the State of Qatar for mediation. The International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children is working. The President's task is to return all of them. We will continue to work," emphasized Yermak.

• On March 14, a foster family with three orphans was returned from the temporarily occupied territory to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine: the mother was threatened to send her children to a Russian school.