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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Three more children brought back from temporarily occupied Kherson Oblast
Three more Ukrainian children aged 12 to 16 have been brought back from the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson Oblast. Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration Details: Among those rescued is a boy who was only nine years old when his hometown was occupied. "He was not afraid to defend his pro-Ukrainian stance, despite being bullied by his peers at school with the support of his teachers. The FSB visited his family, threatening to take him away from his mother. However, the boy remained steadfast, refusing to participate in militarised events or sing the Russian national anthem," Prokudin said. All three children are now safe and are receiving the medical and psychological support they need. This marks the 46th successful return of children from temporarily occupied Kherson Oblast since the start of the year. Background: On 8 May, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the return of Ukrainian children forcibly removed and deported by Russia. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Arab News
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Activists hold ‘die-in' protest at Soviet monument in Warsaw
WARSAW: Pro-Ukrainian activists held a protest at a Soviet memorial in Warsaw where Moscow's ambassador placed a wreath on Friday, as Russia celebrates World War II Victory Day. Some two dozen protesters wrapped in white sheets, their clothes and faces splattered with a red substance imitating blood, lay at the foot of a monument at the cemetery for Soviet soldiers in Poland's capital. They chanted 'terrorists' as Russia's ambassador to Poland, Sergei Andreyev, made his way to the monument with a wreath to commemorate the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany. 'The idea was that the path the ambassador would take to reach the monument would be lined with the graves of people who died innocently during the war' in Ukraine, Miroslaw Petryga, 70, who participated in the lie-in, told AFP. Poland is a staunch ally of Kyiv, supporting Ukraine with military and political aid as it fends off a Russian invasion that is grinding through its fourth year. 'It was the gait of a man pretending not to see anything, with tunnel vision,' Petryga, a Ukrainian engineer who has lived in Poland for decades, said of Andreyev. The ambassador walked past the protesters amid a heavy police presence and with a handful of supporters and security guards around him. The activists also scattered children's toys at the entrance to the cemetery. The teddy bears, balls and other items were also splattered with a blood-like liquid to symbolize child victims of Russia's war in Ukraine. Some were wearing t-shirts with the slogan 'Make Russia small again' and were collecting signatures under a petition to expel the Russian ambassador from Poland. At the site, around a dozen people also gathered at a counter protest, wearing the St. George ribbon, a historical symbol of Russian and Soviet military successes. Minor scuffles and verbal altercations broke out between the groups. A handful of people also showed up to lay flowers at the cemetery away from the protests. 'We should honor the memory of those soldiers who died in the World War,' said Natalia, a 67-year-old who held a black-and-white photo that she said showed her father who had fought in the war. The Russian citizen and longtime Polish resident declined to give her full name. In 2022, the year Russia launched the full-scale war, protesters at the Soviet mausoleum threw a red substance at Moscow's envoy. A year later Andreyev was blocked by activists from laying flowers at the monument. The Kremlin is using its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow — marking 80 years since the end of World War II — to whip up patriotism at home and project strength abroad as its troops fight in Ukraine. But for Natalia Panchenko from the pro-Ukrainian organization Euromaidan, the day should serve as a reminder of Russia's ongoing war. 'It is important to us that today, when people remember that there is a country called Russia, they do not remember Russia through Russian propaganda, but remember the real Russia,' Panchenko told AFP. 'And Russia is a terrorist state,' she said.
