Denys* is seventeen.
He was doing everything he could to escape to the territory of free Ukraine from the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, where he had lived since childhood.
He managed to reach the age of majority. His rescue was made possible by the efforts of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.
Denys is an orphan.
Like his sister and brother, who serves in...
"I am telling about my experiences not so that the world knows my story.
But for the world to understand that there are thousands of stories like mine.
Hundreds of thousands of children are waiting to return home.
And the fact that I was able to live through it and survive gives me the strength to be the voice of these children.
I want the leaders of different countries to hear me and help Ukraine bring its children home," Lera said in her speech to...
We managed to bring 5 children at once - an entire family-type orphanage (FTO) - with their mother, a caregiver, to the territory of free Ukraine!
The family lived in a village in the Luhansk region, which at the beginning of the full-scale invasion was occupied by Russian troops.
SOS Children's Villages Ukraine, the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, the Luhansk Regional State Administration, and the...
