Special Ambassador of Pope Francis for Peace in Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, arrived in Ukraine with an official mission - "

During the meeting with the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets, the parties discussed the mechanisms for the return of children expelled by Russia and the return of civilian prisoners.

“I am very grateful for the meeting, because it helped a lot to understand the pain of the weakest children.. We will do everything possible and impossible to solve this problem,” the pontiff’s envoy said after the meeting, Radio Liberty reports..

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At the same time, the Ukrainian ombudsman stressed that he had privately discussed with the cardinal ways to return Ukrainian children, which could show concrete results..

“Today we saw that the Cardinal himself personally has the authority to obtain all the information about Ukrainian children, the number of what is happening to them and how they can help return them, I mean the children whom the Russian Federation deported. Further, various mechanisms are included, which we can assume that can show a particular result.. We discussed this non-publicly,” Lubinets said..

As of today, Ukraine has verified the data of 19,505 Ukrainian children who were deported by Russia. At the same time, 371 children have already been returned to Ukraine..