6 Ukrainian children were evacuated from the temporarily occupied territories to Ukraine

Five families raising six children managed to evacuate from the temporarily occupied territories to Ukraine. These are families from the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

This was reported by the ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.

According to him, the families were faced with the forced acquisition of Russian passports, lack of access to medical services and medicines. Children were forced to attend schools with Russian propaganda, and for refusing they were threatened with removal from the family.

«Families faced psychological pressure, lack of proper medical care and supply of necessary medicines. Adult family members were forced to obtain Russian passports. The children were forced to attend Russian schools, where the educational process was permeated with the propaganda of the «Russian world». Without the consent of the parents and the children themselves, they were enrolled in military organizations. For refusing to study in Russian schools, they threatened to remove children from the family and take their parents to the «basement» on trumped-up charges,» said Lubinets.

As the ombudsman noted, families currently receive help with finding housing, processing documents, finding employment and enrolling children in educational institutions. They are also provided with financial and humanitarian support.

Earlier, seven more children returned to the controlled territory from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.

We will remind you that seven Ukrainian children from the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk regions, who were under Russian occupation, returned home.

Also, four children — two boys and two girls, aged from 3 to 17 — were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

In addition, at the beginning of September, another family with children returned from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.