Ukraine returns nine more children from temporarily occupied part of Kherson region

Nine more children have been returned from the temporarily occupied communities of the Kherson region to government-controlled territory.

Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration, announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

"Nine children have been returned from the temporarily occupied communities of the Kherson region to Ukrainian-controlled territory," he said.

According to the post, these are four families in which four boys and five girls are being raised. The youngest child is eight months old, and the oldest is 17.

According to Prokudin, the children are now safe with their parents and are recovering from the horrors they had to endure during the Russian occupation.

The children were rescued thanks to the hard work of the Save Ukraine charity, he added.

Prokudin said that 139 children had already been returned from the occupied part of the Kherson region to government-controlled territory this year.