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Russian Foreign Ministry: Ukrainians asked Moscow to help return children taken by the West

10/29/2023, 7:59:00 PM

Highlights: Russian Foreign Ministry: Ukrainians asked Moscow to help return children taken by the West. Dozens of Ukrainian families have appealed to Russia's Permanent Mission to the UN. Head of the military administration of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, said that the region was going to forcibly evacuate 275 children from ten settlements. He said the children had been taken by Western special services. The children were taken from the region by Ukrainian special services, according to the head of the region's military administration.

Dozens of Ukrainian families have appealed to Russia's Permanent Mission to the UN with a request to help return children taken away by Western special services.


This was announced by the Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grigory Lukyantsev.

"The applicants themselves frankly said that the Ukrainian side hinted to them that they had problems of a certain political dimension," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Lukyantsev said that the Russian authorities are trying to understand each specific case.

Earlier, the head of the military administration of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, said that the authorities of the Kharkiv region were going to forcibly evacuate 275 children from ten settlements.