Ukrainian children deported by Russia reunited with families through charity efforts.
Save Ukraine charity facilitated the return of 17 Ukrainian children taken from the Kherson and Kharkiv regions and relocated to Russian and occupied territories. A teenager in the return group described the conditions at a camp in Crimea as difficult and abusive, saying he and others were fed poorly, and those who expressed support for Ukraine were beaten with metal pipes. The children were lied to about the Ukrainian military’s liberation of Kherson, and were told that they would be transferred to a facility in Pskov, where Russian families would adopt them.