Seven Boys Rescued from Kherson Occupation Thanks to Zelenskyy's Initiative

Seven boys aged 3 to 17 have been returned from the temporarily occupied left bank of Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

This was announced by the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin.

Five Ukrainian families went through the horrors of occupation, but now they are free and safe. The return of the children became possible thanks to the initiative of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Bring Kids Back UA and the hard work of Save Ukraine.

Now the children are receiving the necessary help and support. Since the beginning of 2025, 20 children from the Kherson region who were under Russian occupation have already been returned to their homeland.

Recently, a 14-year-old boy was returned from the temporarily occupied Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

In addition, a large family was returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine - a mother and her eight children aged 5 to 17.

Earlier, Intent wrote that there are about 1.5 million children in the temporarily occupied territories, all of whom are under the threat of deportation.

Also <b>, Kateryna Rashevska</b>, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, said that the re-education of Ukrainian teenagers and youth is very well integrated into the policy of the Russian Federation, and it is carried out by bodies of different levels - federal, regional, occupation and even Ukrainian collaborators.

Previously, the occupation authorities of the Kherson region forced children to tear up the graves of victims of Nazi mass shootings in 1941-1943 near Henichesk. The invaders called this involvement of schoolchildren in the exhumation of human remains"patriotic education." In addition to children, heavy machinery was also involved in the "search work," which could simply destroy the burial site.

Андрій Колісніченко