As the head of the OP noted, on the eve of the start of a full -scale invasion, the girl’s mother went to Kyiv to work, leaving her child with her grandfather in her hometown, who was already under occupation in the early days of the war.
“All this time, the child lived under constant pressure and fear: the school was forced to glorify Russia and repeat propaganda narratives, and his grandfather was repeatedly threatened to take his granddaughter into a boarding school if he tried to send her to his mother,” Yermak wrote.
How exactly the child was saved, the head of the OP did not specify. The initiative of Bring Kids Back said that a safe way out of the occupation was developed for the girl.
Now the child is already with her mother, she receives help in restoration and adaptation, noted in the release.
Context
According to Bring Kids Back, the aggressor country Russia illegally deported or moved 19,546 Ukrainian children. Only 1605 managed to return.
On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant of the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the Russian children's ombudsman Maria Lvovo-Belova for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children.
On April 27, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution in which the deportation of Ukrainian children was called genocide.
The Russian Federation abducted more than 20 thousand Ukrainian children, another 1.5 million can be deported, said Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets in October 2024.
