Four-year-old girl reunited with father after evacuation from Russian-occupied territory
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Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:58:07 +0300
Ukrainian human rights activists have assisted a fouryearold girl in evacuating from temporarily Russianoccupied territory and reuniting with her father.
The child had been living in a city captured by Russia since the start of the fullscale war, where she remained with her grandmother despite her fathers persistent but unsuccessful efforts to evacuate them.
Source Daria Zarivna, Chief Operating Officer of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative Quote Little Marichka was only one year old when the fullscale war began.
She was with her grandmother in a city that came under Russian occupation during the first days of the invasion.
Her childhood, which should have been the happiest time in her life, turned into a nightmare due to the lack of water and electricity, constant shelling and the threat of deportation by the occupation authorities. DetailsThe childs father, who was on territory controlled by Ukraine, had tried to arrange evacuation himself for a long time, but to no avail.
Eventually, he reached out to the Ukrainian Child Rights Network, which helped organise a safe route and accompanied the child until she was reunited with her father, Zarivna noted.
As of March 2025, a total of 1,247 children have been brought back to Ukraine.
At the same time, at least 1.6 million children are still living under Russian occupation.
Background Earlier, it was reported that a 16yearold Ukrainian teenager had been abducted by Russian forces from Kherson and sent to a socalled reeducation camp.
The boy openly resisted and at one point took down the Russian flag from a flagpole and replaced it with his underwear.
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