After the occupation of her hometown in 2014, Marina moved to Russia with her parents.
As a teenager, she decided that she wanted to live with her grandfather in Ukraine. Her parents, who had pro-Russian views, did not support her decision.
Upon reaching the age of majority, Maryna began to plan her return to Ukraine on her own: she got a job to raise money for the trip. When her parents learned about her plans, they prevented her from leaving and kept her...
Inna is 15 and Anton is 14. They spent their entire childhood in the temporarily occupied territory. The children's hometown came under occupation in 2014.
Due to difficult life circumstances, the mother was deprived of her parental rights. The children's father died in tragic circumstances a long time ago. The grandmother, who also lived in the TOT of Ukraine, decided that the children should be taken out of the city, where it had become particularly...
We are starting the weekend with good news. Today we managed to return another child from the temporarily occupied territory to Ukraine.
On October 10, a woman asked the Way Home team to help her take her 12-year-old relative out of the temporarily occupied territory. Victoria, the girl's name, had recently lost her mother. The woman became her legal guardian and began to look for ways to return the child to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine.
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This week another family was reunited.
We managed to bring back 9-year-old Svyatoslav and his mother Victoria from the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region.
The boy's older brother was waiting for the family in Ukraine.
Due to difficulties with the documents, Sviatoslav and his mother waited almost 2 weeks for their return permits to be issued.
On Saturday, they managed to cross the Ukrainian border.
The return was supported by the Charitable...
The girl was born in occupied Shakhtarsk, so she had only a certificate from an "unrecognized republic," which made it difficult for them to cross the border.
This created serious obstacles to her return.
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network was contacted by our colleague Kateryna Rashevska from the Regional Center for Human Rights, who asked us to help the family get to Ukraine.
Thanks to the joint efforts of the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily...
Maksym, 3, and Anastasia, 5, crossed the border with their mother last Saturday.Now they are on the territory of free Ukraine.
The village in the Kherson region where the family lived after the start of the full-scale invasion quickly found itself under occupation. In addition to the constant stress of the war, the mother and her children were subjected to domestic violence by their father.
The man abused alcohol.
To save her children, the woman packed her...
