Ukraine rescue group brings home 31 children taken by Russia
The head of a Ukrainian rescue organization said Saturday that the organization has brought back 31 children fromMykola Kuleba said at a news conference in Kyiv that the children were expected to arrive in the capital later in the day. Kuleba is the executive director of the SaveDeportations of Ukrainian children have been a concern since Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine.
and Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine. The International Committee of the Red Cross said this week it had been in contact with Lvova-Belova, the first confirmation of high-level international intervention to reunite families with children who were forcibly deported.
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