Children of servicemen from Kherson region went on a tourist trip

Forty children went on a tourist trip to Germany.

This was reported on the official website of the Kherson Regional Administration.

The children, aged 8 to 14, are residents of the Kherson community. Among them are young talents, children from single-parent families and military families.

"They are accompanied by 4 adults, including a medical worker. This is already the 7th group of children we are sending to Germany," the website says.

Ukrainian travelers will visit the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. They will spend a week there.

This initiative was made possible by the children's tourism program of Deutsche Fernsehlotterie and a number of other sponsors.

Germany is helping the southern regions of Ukraine that have been tested by Russian aggression. For example, recently, the Beryslav community received technical support from German partners worth more than 53 thousand euros.

Earlier, Germany provided two million euros to restore the water supply system in Kherson region that was destroyed by the war. This is the reconstruction of a water supply system damaged by shelling in the village of Borozenske, Beryslav district.

While Ukrainians have been traveling around Europe since childhood, our aggressive "neighbor" chooses "domestic tourism." The Russians did not like the military atmosphere in Crimea, high prices and conflicts with locals, so they started choosing Kamchatka, Sakhalin, etc. for the summer season of 2025.

However, not everyone is lucky enough to choose their own paths in life. Only after the start of the full-scale invasion did the number of applicants from the occupied Crimea entering Ukrainian universities drop sharply. The main reason for this is the complicated and expensive logistics, as it is now possible to get to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine only through third countries.

Олександра Горст