Ukrainian woman detained in Moscow for helping to return abducted children - Russian media

An employee of the Save Ukraine Foundation, an organization that helps to bring children from Russian-occupied territories to Ukraine, was detained in Moscow.

That's according to the Telegram channel of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, citing a source, Ukrinform reports.

The agency writes that the detainee is a Ukrainian woman who came to Russia to take orphans from the occupied Ukrainian regions beyond the "borders" of the Russian Federation.

The agency's source said that the Save Ukraine Foundation is allegedly affiliated with the Security Service of Ukraine.

As Ukrinform reported, on May 11, Mykola Kuleba, executive director of Save Ukraine, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights (2014-2021), said that before the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Ukrainian children were being massively taken from settlements adjacent to the demarcation line to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea and Russia.

In April, Save Ukraine reported that it had managed to return 31 children abducted by Russians from Kherson and Kharkiv regions.

In total, according to the state portal Children of War, at least 19,484 children have been deported from Ukraine as of May 30. Only 371 have been returned.

On March 17, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. They are suspected of illegally deporting children from the occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.