By KYIV. Nov 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Another four Ukrainian children, along with their families, were returned from the temporarily occupied territories, founder of the Save Ukraine organization Mykola Kuleba said.
“During the occupation, two of these children studied at a Ukrainian school online for the entire last school year, while Russian raids were constantly taking place in their village. During such classes, the mother of young Ukrainians was looking out the window and made sure that Russian soldiers did not break into the house. Eventually, the Russian military began threatening the parents that they would take their children, take away the house, and deport them themselves. Therefore, the family was forced to send their children to a Russian school,” Kuleba wrote on the Telegram channel.
He pointed out that children were bullied at the occupation school.
“At the school, ‘new’ Ukrainian children were obliged to wrap themselves in the flag of the Russian Federation and walk in it until the end of lessons. When some children got tired and asked to take it off, the teacher agreed. However, a moment later, an armed Russian military man scolded the children for ‘not loving Russia.’ In the school corridors, children constantly saw such soldiers with weapons who stood near the classrooms and took 10-year-old Ukrainians to ‘educational conversations’ for carelessly saying ‘please’ in the Ukrainian language in the classroom. Fortunately, the children went to a Russian school only four days until our rescuers took the family away from there,” Kuleba said.
Now the families have already crossed the border of Ukraine and are safe. Now they are waiting for a psychological recovery and a gradual return to normal life.
In total, the Save Ukraine team has returned 204 children from Russia and temporarily occupied territories.
