On Monday, eleven Ukrainian youngsters left Russia for Ukraine to be reunited with their families in the most recent exchange between the warring parties facilitated by Qatar.
The kids, aged two to sixteen, were welcomed at the Qatari embassy in Moscow on Monday before embarking on a protracted trek through Belarus that should see them enter northwest Ukraine on Tuesday.
Several youngsters with specific medical needs, including two five- and six-year-olds with chronic diseases, are part of this most recent operation.
Under the plan, groups of kids started to be moved from Ukraine to Russia in October. According to Russia, the procedure has been used to repatriate 59 children to Ukraine.
Moscow has said it is just doing this for the children’s safety. Still, Kyiv has accused Moscow of splintering families and sending kids from areas of Ukraine under Russian control to Russia to brainwash them.
President Vladimir Putin and his children’s commissioner were the subject of an arrest order issued by the Hague-based International Criminal Court last year on charges of forcibly deporting Ukrainian children.
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