Ukraine has managed to return eight more children from the territories temporarily occupied by Russia. They were taken from the Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, according to the Telegram channel of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights,

Two Ukrainian children have been brought back from the temporarily occupied territories as part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative. Source: Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President's Office Quote: "One of the rescued children is a 14-year-old girl who had been at risk of being sent to a Russian boarding school.

The Bring Kids Back UA programme is an initiative to return home all children forcefully deported from Ukraine.

"As part of the initiative of the President of Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA, it was possible to return home 12 children who were under the pressure of the Russian occupation," Andriy Yermak wrote on his Telegram messaging app late on Monday.

Since the beginning of the year, Ukraine has managed to return 31 children who were previously abducted by Russians. This was reported in an interview with NV by Daria Zarivna, Director of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative and advisor to the Head of the Office of the President, as cited by Ukrinform.

Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said the children who returned home include a 16-year-old girl who lost her mother, a 17-year-old boy who had been issued a summons to join the Russian army, and an eight-year-old girl.