Two teenage students from Mariupol were returned from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said.

“Yesterday, two teenagers were returned from the temporarily occupied territories: Ivan Matkovsky and Maxim Boyko. Both students of the Mariupol Construction College. A bit tired, but now they are safe,” Vereshchuk wrote on Wednesday..

In particular, she thanked the International Committee of the Red Cross and the SOS Children's Towns charitable foundation for their assistance in releasing the children..

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Earlier it was reported that Russia took out at least 234 thousand children from the occupied Ukrainian territories.. Orphans face further illegal adoption in Russia.

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