Every child has trauma after living under Russian occupation.
Return of children deported by the Russian Federation home
Ukraine managed to return ten more children from temporarily occupied territories. Now all their families are safe.
This was announced by the head of Save Ukraine Mykola Kuleba.
Among the children who were returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory is the girl Alina, who remained at home with her dad after her mother Marina was deported by the Russians.
“The girl was forced to attend a Russian school, listen and sing the Russian anthem there, wear an expensive school uniform. For any refusal to do all this, the children were threatened with lower grades. Although Alina still refused to draw and write letters to Russian soldiers, telling the teacher that he couldn’t draw and didn’t know Russian,” writes Kuleba.
The boy Alexey, whose father died of heart disease during the occupation, also remembers only Russian textbooks, which very quickly replaced all books at school.
13-year-old Orest and 11-year-old Melania found themselves divorced from their parents after the Ukrainian Armed Forces dismissed Right Bank. The parents took the children to the Left Bank to visit their grandparents, as far as possible from the combat zone. Children for 1.5 years have not seen their parents.
Save Ukraine also told the story of little Lana, who was born during the occupation. Her mother, Tamil, met the full-scale invasion while pregnant.
“It was very difficult to survive in the first months, when there was a shortage of food and medicine during the occupation. The young woman was very hopeful that she would give birth in a free Ukraine, but no, she went to the maternity hospital They drove through several Russian checkpoints. They barely agreed with the military to let them through.
A new life was born in explosions. The mother in labor was very scared, but, fortunately, there was no storage facility. They were discharged home four hours after giving birth, so and without giving the child any vaccination,” notes the head of Save Ukraine.