Nine more children were returned from the occupied Kherson region

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Nine more children from the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Kherson RMA, announced this.

It is noted that now the children are safe with their parents.

«These are four families in which four boys and five girls are raised. The youngest child is 8 months old, the oldest is 17 years old,» added the head of the RMA.

Oleksandr Prokudin reported that since the beginning of 2024, 139 children from the Kherson region have been returned to the controlled territory of Ukraine.

We will remind that Ukraine managed to return five pupils of the Novopetriv boarding school from the Mykolaiv region, who were stolen by Russian troops in July 2022.

Earlier it was reported that a minor child who had not seen his parents for two years was returned from the occupation.

In addition, 10 more children were returned to Ukraine from the temporarily occupied territories. Before that, the children lived with their relatives in the TOT — in the Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.