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19
December
2022

Two more children whom invaders kept in occupied Torez and in Russia returned home

KYIV. Dec 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Two more children, who were kept by the occupiers in the temporarily occupied territories and in Russia, have been returned home, the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories has said.

"For the return of 11-year-old Mark and 18-year-old Danylo, they fought for almost two months. On October 17, their mother Yulia turned to the Ministry of Reintegration with a request to help evacuate her sons: Mark from the temporarily occupied Torez in Donetsk region, Danilo from Russia," according to telegram channel of the Ministry of Reintegration on Saturday, December 17.

As Iryna Vereschuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, said, Yulia Dvornichenko was released from captivity in the middle of October. "It was a big exchange of prisoners when Ukraine returned home 108 of our women. However, two of her sons remained in the temporarily occupied territories: 11-year-old Mark and 18-year-old Danylo."

With the assistance of the Ministry of Reintegration in Ukraine with the temporarily occupied territories and Russia, more than a hundred children have already been returned.