Ukraine returns boy deported to Russia from temporarily occupied Kherson region

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets informed about this by Telegram.

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russian occupiers deported children from the Oleshky orphanage in Kherson region to the Russian Federation: Artem was returned to Ukraine by his grandmother.

"The applicant said that as soon as she found out that the children in the orphanage were being transferred to the Russian Federation, she personally went to the institution to pick up her grandson. However, Artem, along with other children, had already been transferred to the territory of the Russian Federation, from there to the temporarily occupied Crimea, and later to the city of Skadovsk. However, the administration of the institution where Artem was staying refused to return the child," the Ombudsman noted.

At his request, the child welfare authorities appointed his grandmother as the child's trustee and took measures to return the boy to the territory controlled by Ukraine. 

• A17-year-old boy from temporarily occupied Mariupol tried to come back to Ukraine, but the special services detained him in Belarus and returned him to Russia.

• According to a statement issued by Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Serhiy Kyslytsia, 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.