122 children evacuated from frontline villages in Kherson region

Since the beginning of August, police officers have evacuated 122 children with their parents or guardians from the coastal settlements of the region.

This was reported by the police of the Kherson region.

According to Vitaliy Saifutdinov, head of the Juvenile Prevention Department, evacuation flights were organized from villages where infrastructure was destroyed by enemy shelling. There are no living conditions in these settlements, and children's education is impossible.

The evacuated children were transported to safer regions of Ukraine where they will be able to continue their education and development.

Children from Mykolaiv region were forcibly taken to Russia. During the occupation of the village of Novopetrivka, 15 children remained in the special school : ten were deprived of parental care, two were orphans, two were placed in the institution due to difficult life circumstances, and one child had already been adopted by US citizens at the time of deportation. The children were forcibly taken by the Russian occupiers, first through the occupied Crimea, and then to the city of Anapa in Russia. Instead of education and safety, they were subjected to ideological pressure, a ban on speaking Ukrainian and forced to sing the anthem of the aggressor country.

The children were under the control of the occupiers for three months, although there were no objective reasons for the 'evacuation' - the school had a bomb shelter and supplies, and the situation in the village remained stable. The prosecutor's office established the full route of the deportation and identified those involved, including a Russian serviceman and two collaborators from Kherson region. The defendants were brought to court and their names were added to the sanctions lists.

Катерина Глушко