Another three children return from occupied Kherson region; total reaches 246 since start of year – administration
Head of Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin said that three more teenage boys had been successfully returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory from the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region.
Three teenage boys, aged 11 to 17, have been safely returned to Ukrainian territory from the temporarily occupied Kherson region, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration. One of the boys, a 13-year-old, endured daily terror as Russian combat drones targeted his city. They were forced to attend a Russian school under threat of having their parents' parental rights revoked, subjected to hostile propaganda, and made to take ideological tests.
However, these children are now safe and receiving necessary assistance. Since the beginning of 2026, a total of 246 children have been successfully returned from the temporarily occupied Kherson region, with the return facilitated by the charity Save Ukraine and the "Bring Kids Back UA" initiative led by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
As of late September, 2,616 children had been returned under the initiative, with 673 of those returns occurring in 2026 alone. Prokudin reported that 190 children had been returned from the temporarily occupied Kherson region since the start of the year.
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