Denis*, an 11-year-old resident of Mariupol, has not seen his mother since the beginning of the large-scale invasion.
For two long years, the woman has been looking for a way to bring her son to the government-controlled territory.
She succeeded thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.
Denis's mother is a military servicewoman who defends our homeland with...
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...
For more than two years, the girl had been rushing to where her heart was: a free Ukraine.
First from occupation, then from deportation.
Finally, yesterday she crossed the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine helped 17-year-old Myroslava* to return from Russia.
Sometimes it seems that this case of return is the most difficult, the most incredible, the most...
In May, Maksym* will turn six years old. For two of them, he lived under occupation with his grandparents. But finally, the boy returned to his parents. The Ukrainian Child Rights Network (UCRN) and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine contributed to this.
In January 2022, Maksym's mother got a job after her maternity leave, and the boy had no one to leave him at home with, so he was taken to his grandparents in...
In the summer, Ilya from Kyiv will turn seventeen.
He spent more than two years in the occupation, separated from his family: his mother and grandfather.
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine facilitated the boy's return to the territory of free Ukraine.
In early March, Ilya's grandfather came to the Ministry of Reintegration with a request to help him get his grandson out of the...
"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...
