Two more Ukrainian children brought back from occupied Crimea

As part of the implementation of the Bring Kids Back UA action plan, Ukraine has managed to bring two more Ukrainian children back from occupied Crimea.

Source: message from Andrii Yermak, the head of the Office of the President

Quote: "As part of the implementation of the President's approved action plan ‘Bring Kids Back UA’, we managed to bring home two more Ukrainian children. These are Yehor and Valeriia, born in 2009 and 2015. They came with their grandmother.

These children were born in Crimea and ended up under the care of their grandmother due to the death of their father and their mother’s loss of her parental rights."

Details: Yermak said that after the full-scale invasion of the Russians, the pressure on people who held pro-Ukrainian views intensified, and the grandmother decided to leave Crimea with the children.

"She turned to the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request for assistance in moving with the minors. Our team helped them leave for Ukraine; a legend was developed that the family used when contacting representatives of the occupation authorities and special services of the aggressor country. Now they are in Kyiv," he wrote.

Background:

• On Friday, it became known that Ukraine reached an agreement regarding the return of 17-year-old Bohdan Yermokhin, who was deported from occupied Mariupol.
• On 9 October, Ukraine managed to bring back nine children from Kherson Oblast who were in that temporarily occupied territory.
• Several more children were brought back on 21 October.

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