Mykola Kuleba
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Founder of @SaveukraineUs, Ombudsman for Children with the President of Ukraine (2014-2021) 🇺🇦 #SaveUkraine #HelpUsRescueMore
Joined April 2022
"Mom, will you come to get me? That’s what I wished for on New Year’s," Alisa couldn’t hold back her excitement as she spoke to her mom via video call before the challenging journey ahead. Alisa (name changed) hadn’t seen her mother, Tamila, for almost three years. Tamila serves
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17 Ukrainian children deported by Russia to its territory are finally in Ukraine.
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Today 10 more Ukrainian children returned to Ukraine and are now safe. Despite the difficulties and considerable obstacles, our team managed to make it possible. Save Ukraine has already returned 141 children from Russia to Ukraine in 9 rescue missions.
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We are happy to announce that Save Ukraine managed to bring home 15 more children!.Children from Kherson and Kharkiv regions are finally in Ukraine. Together with their mothers, they happily crossed the border and are safe now.
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Bringing Ukrainian children back from Russia and occupied territories is one of my team priorities. The task is difficult but not impossible.
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10-year-old Mykyta was abducted by Russians from the #Oleshky boarding school in October last year. He and other children from the institution, including children with disabilities, were forcibly taken to Russia under the pretext of “evacuation.”. For a long time, the boy stayed
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Finally, at the end of the week, we have good news. We managed to return 5 children to #Ukraine from the territory of the Russian Federation and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Now the children are safe with their families. In total, the @SaveukraineUs team has
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The @SaveukraineUs team has successfully brought back another 12 Ukrainian children who were taken to Russian territory. This rescue mission was challenging, but we are committed to bringing every Ukrainian child home.
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Today, we welcome home 31 Ukrainian children who were abducted by Russians from occupied territories. This was the most challenging of all previous rescue missions due to Russia's large-scale information campaign ⬇️
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Сhildren abducted by Russians from the Kherson and Kharkiv regions have been reunited with their families after several months of separation. They are now safe but in need of psychological and physical recovery. Follow the updates.
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We have good news - Save Ukraine has returned another Ukrainian child from occupied Mariupol. And this is a great joy for us. As of today, the Save Ukraine team has returned 131 children to Ukraine.
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Lilia lost her mother and stepfather and barely survived when she left #Mariupol, covering her boyfriend and his parents. Her injured leg did not allow her to walk quickly. But her brother Artem remained in the occupation, and the occupation authorities wanted to give him up for
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Father carried his son to the hospital in his arms, but tragically, it was already too late. 📷 Russia killed them
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On the photo, the family from the Kharkiv region, who have 3 young sons. They spent almost all the time in the basement without light and connection. Finally, my «Save Ukraine» team evacuated them to our Kyiv rehabilitation center🇺🇦🙏🏻
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This morning, in the #Kherson region, Russians killed a child who was only 23 days old. The newborn's 12-year-old brother is currently in a hospital in serious condition. Unfortunately, the boy's parents, who lived in the village of Shyroka Balka, were killed along with his
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Mother hid Olesia from the occupation authorities and her fellow villagers for a whole year so that no one would find out that the girl had been living with her and force her to study at a Russian school. Parents took Mykyta, Sashko, and Andrii to their grandparents on the left
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9-year-old Timur and 14-year-old Karolina from Nikopol became orphans. They were waiting for mom and dad near their home in Dnipro when the enemy rocket exploded. Now the children are in the hospital. 📷: Valeriia Marchenko
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The week ends with good news - the Save Ukraine team has returned 31 more Ukrainian children from Russia.
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Another 11 Ukrainian children were taken away from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories. We are happy to share this good news with you. As of today, there are already 161 children that the @SaveukraineUs team has managed to return. We are grateful to everyone who
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Almost a million Ukrainian children ended up in the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas and were deported to the Russian Federation. These are stolen Ukrainian children whom Russia turned into weapons! And now thousands of these young people are fighting against their
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We call the international community to make every effort to force Russia to provide truthful information about how many children were taken out, where they are, and in what condition they are. I urge all to join us in raising collective voices against the atrocities committed
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I'm very glad that we have returned 16 children. They are now safe in the embrace of their parents. It was our third rescue mission. But we move ahead. We will not stop.
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Finally, all three children are at home, in Ukraine. Smiles are in the eyes, joy is in the soul, a meeting with family and friends is ahead. The @SaveukraineUs team continues to do everything possible to return every Ukrainian child home.
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A 6-year-old child and six adults were killed today as a result of a Russian Iskander strike on the Chernihiv Drama Theatre. 129 people were injured, including 15 children. The Russians fired missiles on a normal day off at a civilian facility where there were ordinary
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In October 2022, while Tetiana was attending the funeral of her mother, who was killed on a bridge by Russian shelling, Russian soldiers abducted her son. Wearing balaclavas and holding weapons, they ordered 17-year-old Vlad to put on a bulletproof vest and follow them. The boy
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Seeing the smiles of Ukrainian children deported by Russia, finally home and reunited with their families, is priceless. After months of separation, Russian manipulation, threats, and attempts to erase their Ukrainian identity, kids can now breathe freely.
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15 days of travel, hours of interrogation in Russia and Belarus, thousands of minutes of anxiety, stress, and awaiting - and finally children and parents are together in Ukraine.
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8-month-old Emilia Furnik from Zaporizhzhia will never celebrate her first birthday. She will never say her first word or go to school. She died under the rubble of a five-story building with her father, Ilya and mother, Kamila. This is the real face of russian «peace».
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Varvara, a 9-year-old girl, tragically experienced severe injuries, a lack of timely surgery, and the inevitability of death during the last two hours of her life. Russians killed this little girl in Mariupol on March 14, 2022. May her soul find eternal peace 🕊
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Recently I made one little wish of Nastia from the Kherson region come true. Russians kidnapped the girl. They promised her a house and russian citizenship. So as the other 15 children, my team, returned Nastia last month from enemy territory. Now she is in Kyiv with her mom.
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Russians have killed more than 500 🇺🇦 children since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. More than 1,097 young Ukrainians have been injured due to 🇷🇺 military aggression since February 24, 2022. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine released these figures last
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The abduction of Ukrainian children is NOT a 'rescue' operation but a violation of their rights. Maria Lvova-Belova's cynical statements cannot hide the truth. We need justice for our children and unity of the international community to make it happen. Let's save our children!
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Another painful loss, another life tragically cut short. In the evening, rescue workers discovered the body of a 4-month-old baby who was sleeping peacefully in his mother's arms. The father had been hoping for a miracle since morning, but he lost both his wife and child. Now, he
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1.5-year-old Nastia had been at home when a Russian projectile exploded outside and took her mother's life. Three days before the evacuation of the Klipachov family, the Russians attacked the village of Zvanivka in the Bakhmut district with artillery fire. Many houses had been
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Legendary boxer Volodymyr Klitschko visited the Save Ukraine center to meet with 17-year-old Vladyslav Rudenko, who recently returned home from Russia after a long deportation.
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While the Vatican tries to "reconcile" Ukrainians and Russians by organizing a demonstrative procession of children from Ukraine and Russia, while the Pope calls for an Easter truce, the Russians are once again proving to the world that nothing is sacred to them.
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What does it take to destroy a nation?.The most insidious way is to destroy the national identity of children and to rewire their immature consciousness in a different way. This is exactly what Russia is doing with Ukrainian children under the guise of “liberation”.
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Rescue from the occupation: 10 more children in Ukraine!. Today, @SaveukraineUs has freed 10 more #children from the occupation, including 7 from a large family. The youngest child is 9 months old. To date, we have already returned 345 children to #Ukraine. It was a challenge
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Russians illegally detained 16-year-old Vitalii in a camp in occupied Crimea. Vitalii told our organization about the crimes committed by the occupiers against Ukrainian children after @SaveukraineUs returned him and 16 other children home to their families.
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I am pleased to announce the documentary UPROOTED, An investigation into Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children taken from the now-occupied Mariupol last May. Among them is Pylyp Holovnya, taken into custody by the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria.
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335 children. That's how many little Ukrainians the @SaveukraineUs team has returned to their native land. This week, we have rescued 11 more children, including a family with four children. We continue our tireless work with the Humanity Foundation to reunite as many families as.
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Thousands of #Ukrainian children abducted by Russians in the temporarily occupied territories are being taken out through #Belarus. This activity is systematic. The #children are transported by rail to Minsk and taken by bus to 6 locations in Belarus. This is done in order to
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More than 19,000 children deported by Russia are not just official statistics. These are more than 19,000 completely different stories and destinies. Every child who crosses the #Ukrainian border after being deported by Russia is our small. our big victory. After all, behind.
Save Ukraine has already conducted 9 rescue missions, thanks to which we managed to return the 150 Ukrainian children from Russia and the occupied territories. We are grateful to everyone who supports and helps us in this crucial work for Ukraine.
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The issue of the deportation of Ukrainian children should be heard around the world. In every corner of the globe, people should know about the crimes committed by Russia in #Ukraine against children and their families. And I am grateful to everyone who speaks and writes about.
The organization @SaveukraineUs returned 161 of the forcibly deported Ukrainian children. A Russian official claims that 700,000 Ukrainian children have been moved out of #Ukraine .#UkraineRussianWar #MissingNotForgotten #InternationalDayOfTheDisappeared
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5-year-old Olesia died under the rubble of her home in Izium. More than 50 people died in that tragedy. The girl was dreaming of going to school for the first time. It was one of the thousands of children's dreams that will never come true. Photo: Memorial: victims of russia
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The incident in the Zaporizhzhia region highlights the brutality of the Russian regime and shows the vulnerability young Ukrainians face in the occupied regions. According to the occupiers' representative, two pro-Ukrainian ‘terrorists' were reportedly eliminated in Berdiansk.
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Eva, 11 y.o. girl, was kidnapped by russia five months ago while her mother, a Ukrainian soldier, was in the hospital after being wounded on the battlefield. Today, @SaveukraineUs returned the girl home together with other 19 deported Ukrainian children. #StandWithUkraine
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Russian special forces raided the Serhiyko and Anzhelika's children's rooms twice. The first time, they jumped over the fence without opening the gate. They rummaged through children's things in the house: phones, clothes, textbooks. They were looking for something even in the
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Since the beginning of the war, the Russian Federation has deported almost 20,000 Ukrainian children. And that's only according to official data. The real number could be much higher. However, it has been possible to return very few to #Ukraine to date – it is a little more than
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📢 Great news from Ukraine's Western partners! 🇺🇦.1️⃣ The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has taken a strong stand against the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
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I don't want my girls to live in fear all the time," Olga Savelyeva, a resident of Yasnohirka, which borders #Kramatorsk, began her story with these words. Olga is a programmer, wife, and mother of two wonderful girls, Victoria and Valeria. Until February 24, she had a good job
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Almost 20,000 Ukrainian children were taken by Russians during the invasion. Mothers facing challenges to bring them back. Watch Amanda Bailey, Anton Shchuk, and Jane Ferguson's video supported by Pulitzer Center, showcasing brave Ukrainian parents searching for their children →.
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Oleksii, a bright 7-year-old boy from Mykolaiv, dreamed of becoming a football player. Tragically, he fell victim to Russian war crimes and lost his life in a Russian military air strike on March 19, 2022. May his soul rest in peace 🕊
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Little, but such responsible and brave Ukrainian children. If there is air raid siren- immediately to the shelter. Children understand that russia is launching its missiles again and what is their purpose. Video: from the network
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Oleksii, a 15-year-old from Uman, had high hopes for his future, envisioning graduation, entrance exams, and pursuing higher education at university. Tragically, the boy's dreams were cut abruptly when a Russian missile claimed his life. 📷 Memorial: victims of russia
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The fifth rescue mission of Save Ukraine, which became the biggest challenge for our team, is already over. But, despite all the obstacles, we brought 31 children home.
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One of @SaveukraineUs most important missions is to bring back Ukrainian children home who Russians deported. Children have to live with their families in their native land and grow up in a free state
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The Kremlin is trying to convince the world that it’s saving children. But in fact, Russia is trying to hide its crimes. After all, the danger that the Moscow authorities are constantly talking about is a result of their aggression.
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One 10-year-old child is killed and 4 children are wounded as a result of a rocket attack on a high-rise building in Kryvyi Rih. In total, 4 people were killed and 43 wounded. The victims suffered from lacerations and cuts, fractures, and mine-blast injuries. The rubble is still
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One more child returned from Russia: 17-year-old Ilona is happy to be home.
One more child returned from Russia: 17-year-old Ilona is happy to be home. Despite several challenges, the @SaveukraineUs team managed to make maximum efforts, and the kidnapped girl was finally in her native Ukrainian land. A meeting with her mother is ahead. We are happy to
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recognized the deportation of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation as genocide and officially confirmed the involvement of Putin and his ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova in this crime. Photo: twitter/ President of Ireland
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The Save Ukraine team has been nominated for the Manhae Peace Award 2023 for their work to rescue Ukrainian children deported by Russia. I know that I stand on the shoulders of giants. Previous winners of this award include some of the most distinguished peacemakers of our
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A 6-year-old boy died today in Bilozerska community in Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling. He sustained injuries incompatible with life. His 13-year-old brother is hospitalised in serious condition. Three neighbours tried to help the family, but they also came under
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16 children returned to Ukraine! They've been abducted and kept in the russian federation and the occupied territories under the pretext of "rehabilitation". Thank you, @SaveUkraineUs, and everyone who helped to bring them back!
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Today is the Day of Remembrance of Children who died as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Nearly 500 innocent Ukrainian children have been taken from us since Feb 24, 2022, robbed of their childhood and dreams. 📷: Ricardo Moraes
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Grateful to @guardian for shedding light on the efforts of Save Ukraine in bringing back Ukrainian children deported by Russia. We're committed to ensuring every child returns home and criminals face justice.
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It only takes a few years of massive propaganda and military training to erase national identity in children's minds and sow hatred for the Motherland in them forever. This is precisely what Russia has been doing to Ukrainian children for 9 years. Between 2014 and 2022, more
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Save Ukraine has rescued 3 more children from the occupation. Our team has completed another operation to evacuate children from the occupied territories. This time, we saved 3 children. One of them left without parental care. In total, the team managed to return 359 young
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Today, we are again experiencing touching moments when children return to their native land. They are tired from the journey and prolonged stress but happy to be home in their homeland.
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We meet 10 Ukrainian children returned by Save Ukraine from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories. Now they are facing a long path of rehabilitation and recovery after what they have experienced over the past few months. Every Ukrainian child held in the territory
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Two-year-old Maksym from Sloviansk was killed on April 4, 2023, when the Russians fired eight S-300 missiles at the city. One of them landed right in the apartment where the boy was. Maksym died in an ambulance. This shelling took the lives of 15 people.
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14 Ukrainian children from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories are finally in Ukraine.Among those rescued, two are without parental care. These are the results of the fruitful work of the @SaveukraineUs team during the week. In total, as of today, we have already.
14 Ukrainian children from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories are finally in Ukraine. Among those rescued, two are without parental care. These are the results of the fruitful work of the #SaveUkraine team during the week. In total, as of today, we have already
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One of Russia's most brutal war crimes in #Ukraine is the abduction of #Ukrainian #children. According to Maria Lvova-Belova, Putin's commissioner for children's rights, about 700,000 children were taken to Russia "for their safety." However, in reality, the Russians commit a
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Our sixth rescue mission has been a success thus far as one child has already crossed the border. We are now awaiting the return of two more young heroes who will soon make their way back to the Homeland.
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Russian social services took 9-year-old Vsevolod from his parents and took him to one of the children's institutions in #Melitopol. Here he was kept alone in a closed room for a long time, and later he was forcibly put on Russian camouflage and ordered to learn the Russian
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Save Ukraine has recently completed its 8th rescue mission, bringing back 10 children. Among them was Serhii. His story is a heartbreaking testament to the impact of the war and occupation on young people's lives.
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Russian soldiers shot 4-year-old Mykyta and his 8-year-old sister Anastasia from the occupied #Volnovakha . #Children were killed along with their parents and other older relatives in their house at night when the whole family was already asleep in their beds. Almost all 9 family
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Good news: we have saved 7 more children from the occupiers.
This week, our Save Ukraine team has helped seven more children and their parents leave the occupied part of the #Kherson, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Luhansk regions and the temporarily occupied #Crimea. Each of our missions is a big risk and numerous trials the #Russian authorities
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This church sheltered around 60 orphans during the occupation of Kherson. Unfortunately, Russian FSB officers found out about this place and came here with guns. They abducted kids. The current fate of the children is unknown.
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A 12-year-old schoolgirl from the #Luhansk region passed away on Russian territory aboard the Tyumen–Adler train. Veronica lost consciousness, doctors tried to help her, but unfortunately, her heart stopped. The other 100 children from this train were taken to an infectious
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Excited to share the details of the 4th @SaveukraineUs rescue mission where 17 children were brought back from Russia and occupied territories to reunite with their families in Ukraine. It was a challenging yet worthy operation.
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Serhii and Kseniia Koldin's story is a testament to the resilience of sibling love in the face of adversity. Separated by war and influenced by Russian propaganda, their journey to reunite is a powerful reminder of what we are fighting for.
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Russia's "evacuation" campaign to "protect" children from the frontline areas is just a cover for their war crimes against Ukrainian children. Thanks to @SaveukraineUs' fifth rescue mission, 31 children returned home, but thousands remain in forced deportation.
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Twelve-year-old Danyil Zavoruyev tragically passed away last night due to a missile strike on the Borova settlement. At the moment of the strike, his family was entering their house when a fragment hit the teenager, causing a fatal injury. Previously, Daniil and his parents
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Vitalii from the Mykolaiv region will always remain a 17-year-old boy. On 21 March 2022, his life was cut short by a mine left by the Russians. Photo: Memorial: victims of russia
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Last night, our 13th rescue mission was completed, within the framework of which we rescued 7 more children from the clutches of the occupiers. In total, within the framework of 13 rescue missions, the Save Ukraine team helped 14 children and their families escape from the.
Last night, our 13th rescue mission was completed, within the framework of which we rescued 7 more #children from the clutches of the occupiers. Two of them are orphans. They are 17-year-old Sasha and Ulyana, who live with their grandmother. Living conditions for Ukrainian
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We are happy that everything went well, and the families will now be able to have some rest and recover from the severe psychological trauma.
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Ukrainian children face unimaginable horrors every day. Some lives are under constant threat of missiles attacks and occupation, while others endure terror and abductions.
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In a heartfelt gesture of solidarity, Chef Jose has pledged to match donations up to $1,000,000 to support Save Ukraine’s work evacuating children and families from frontline combat zones and rescuing and returning abducted kids to Ukraine. Chef Jose is a hero to the Ukrainian
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«I see that the school is all damaged. I saw russians. I was afraid that they would shoot us», - these are the memories of 10-year-old David from Kharkiv region. His family hid from the bombing in basement. Fortunately, our «Save Ukraine» team evacuated family to a safer place.
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Julia tried to take her adopted daughter out of the occupation twice, but the Russians didn't let them go. In April 2022, the family went through Snigurivka in the #Mykolayiv region, where they were simply turned back by Russians. In the summer, they tried to break out through
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At yesterday's UN Security Council on maintaining peace and security in Ukraine, I was honored to speak on behalf of Ukrainian children. Those deprived of their right to life, their right to childhood, and their right to their own identity. I talked to the voice of those
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Today, our @SaveukraineUs team brought back four more children from the occupied areas of #Zaporizhzhia and #Kherson regions. These children range in age from 0 to 16 years old. Currently, they are all safe in one of our centers. This represents our 15th rescue mission, and as
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Parents were left to deal with this problem on their own. Complex logistics, constant danger, a line of fire or several borders have turned the return of children into a super-task for many of them. That's why they turn to @SaveukraineUS for help.
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22 children returned home thanks to @SaveukraineUs 7th rescue mission. The psychological pressure and days of interrogation by FSB couldn't stop united and courageous mothers. Now, the children are finally home. Recovery and heartfelt conversations with loved ones await them.
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We are ending the week with good news: our organization has returned 11 #Ukrainian #children from the temporarily occupied territories. The total number of children rescued by the Save Ukraine team is 384, of which 93 are orphans.
Another victory: we have rescued 11 children from the occupation this week. We are ending the week with good news: our organization has returned 11 #Ukrainian #children from the temporarily occupied territories. The total number of children rescued by the Save Ukraine team is
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Today's press conference shed light on the ongoing deportation of Ukrainian children. Proud to announce that @SaveukraineUs team brought back home 20 more kids through the 7t rescue mission.
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Kseniia Koldina, only 18, went the extra mile to bring her deported brother back home. She, like many others, showed courage and determination while facing uncertainty and psychological pressure. She proved that the power of love can overcome any obstacle.
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The @SaveUkraineUs team persists to ensure the safe return of every Ukrainian child who has been taken illegally, returning them to their families.
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