Ukrainian human rights activists have assisted a four-year-old lady in evacuating from quickly Russian-occupied territory and reuniting together with her father. The kid had been dwelling in a metropolis captured by Russia because the begin of the full-scale warfare, the place she remained together with her grandmother regardless of her father's persistent however unsuccessful efforts to evacuate them.

Supply: Daria Zarivna, Chief Working Officer of the Convey Children Again UA initiative

Quote: "Little Marichka was just one 12 months outdated when the full-scale warfare started. She was together with her grandmother in a metropolis that got here beneath Russian occupation in the course of the first days of the invasion. Her childhood, which ought to have been the happiest time in her life, became a nightmare because of the lack of water and electrical energy, fixed shelling and the specter of deportation by the occupation authorities."

Particulars:The kid’s father, who was on territory managed by Ukraine, had tried to rearrange evacuation himself for a very long time, however to no avail.

"Ultimately, he reached out to the Ukrainian Little one Rights Community, which helped organise a secure route and accompanied the kid till she was reunited together with her father," Zarivna famous.

As of March 2025, a complete of 1,247 youngsters have been introduced again to Ukraine. On the identical time, at the least 1.6 million youngsters are nonetheless dwelling beneath Russian occupation.

Background: Earlier, it was reported {that a} 16-year-old Ukrainian teenager had been kidnapped by Russian forces from Kherson and despatched to a so-called "re-education camp". The boy brazenly resisted and at one level took down the Russian flag from a flagpole and changed it together with his underwear.

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