A 7-year-old boy who had remained without his parents in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region for almost four years was returned to territory under Ukrainian control.
This was reported by the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.
It is noted that on the eve of the full-scale war the child’s mother went to Kyiv on business, and on February 24 their village fell under occupation. The child stayed with his grandmother.
When the boy turned seven and it was time to go to school, the occupation authorities demanded that a Russian birth certificate be issued. This could not be done without the parents, nor could guardianship be arranged.
After the refusal, the occupation authorities began to threaten to take the boy from his grandmother and send him to an orphanage.
The boy was returned as part of the state initiative of the President of Ukraine “Bring Kids Back UA” and with the support of ГС “Ukrainian Network for Children’s Rights”.
“On the eve of the holidays, after almost four years of separation, he embraced his mother again. Now they are together on free Ukrainian soil receiving all necessary support and making up for lost time”, – the post reads.
Earlier we wrote that from the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson region it was possible to return two boys — 10 and 11 years old.