Ukraine has already managed to return 53 children illegally taken to Russia. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk on the air of the telethon.

According to her, their parents, relatives and acquaintances can join the search for children probably deported by Russians by contacting the Ministry of Reintegration on the hotline.

“In each specific case, we find out the information, fix it, and if we find a child on the territory of the Russian Federation, we do everything to return the child,” Vereshchuk emphasized..

The minister noted that 53 children were returned to Ukraine in this way.

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At the same time, our state continues to record cases of illegal export and adoption of little Ukrainians by citizens of the Russian Federation for the subsequent filing of lawsuits..

" That is, I set the task for my employees to clearly record such cases, to find where the adoptions took place, and we will sue, we will demand that Russia be held accountable, because this is really a crime against our state, against our children,” said Irina Vereshchuk.

Earlier it became known that only in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia, more than 1,000 children were illegally adopted, whom the occupiers took out of the captured Mariupol.