In 2025, 30 children were returned to the Mykolaiv region following their deportation

Thirty children have been returned to the Mykolaiv region following their deportation in 2025. File photo: Reuters

In 2025, 30 children were returned to the Mykolaiv region following deportation. Three children have already been returned to the region this year.

This was announced during a briefing by Iryna Ponomariova, head of the Children’s Services Department of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, according to NikVesti.

According to her, a total of 45 children have arrived in the region since 2022 to settle there following deportation.

«Among the children who have arrived in the region this year, there is one child with a disability. Also, three children were granted the status of children deprived of parental care upon their return. All of them are receiving the necessary services. Furthermore, these children have been granted the status of children affected by hostilities and armed conflicts,» said Iryna Ponomariova.

Also, in 2025, following the occupation and forced removal from children’s institutions, eight children were returned to the Mykolaiv region. Some of them have already reached the age of majority.

Furthermore, 98 children were granted this status because their parents or legal guardians went missing under special circumstances or died as a result of hostilities, injuries or other consequences of the war.

A further three children were granted the status of children deprived of parental care due to the consequences of military operations and armed conflicts.

As a reminder, eight pupils from the Novi Petrivtsi boarding school were returned to Ukraine after spending three years in Georgia. The Mykolaiv Regional State Administration told NikVesti that the children are currently undergoing rehabilitation at a facility in Kyiv.

It later emerged that the Security Service of Ukraine had charged Russian serviceman Kakhaberi Karbai with the abduction of 15 children from the boarding school during the occupation of the Mykolaiv region in 2022.