Last week, the Save Ukraine team rescued 10 Ukrainian children and teenagers from occupation. This mission was made possible thanks to the support of Wladimir Klitschko, Tatjana Kiel from WeAreAllUkrainians, the Humanity Foundation, and the Joint Coordination Center for Search and Release. These children endured threats, pressure, and attempts at forced “re-education.” Today, they are finally safe.

Among those rescued:

🔹 16-year-old Yaryna, who lived for a long time under occupation in constant fear of being taken from her family and sent first to an orphanage and then to Siberia. Her grandmother was not allowed to obtain legal guardianship, and under pressure Yaryna was forced to attend a Russian school, where she was repeatedly threatened with deportation and told in class that “Ukraine attacked itself.”

🔹 11-year-old Myroslav, who was taken together with his father to a police station by Russian security services because the family refused to obtain Russian documents and enroll him in a Russian school. For more than two hours, the child and his father were interrogated about the so-called “special military operation,” Putin, and their views on the war.

🔹 16-year-old Veronika and 13-year-old Daryna, whose mother hid them from the occupation authorities after demands that the sisters attend a Russian school. Despite threats of fines and the loss of parental rights, the girls secretly continued studying online at a Ukrainian school.

🔹 14-year-old Zlata, whose phone was searched and found to contain an app she used to study remotely at a Ukrainian school. After that, local “police” and occupation administrators began pressuring the family, demanding a full transition to Russian education.

All the rescued children are now staying at Save Ukraine’s Hope and Healing Centers, where they receive psychological support, assistance with documents, housing, and care — everything needed to restore a sense of safety and begin dreaming again.

Thanks to Save Ukraine, more than 1,000 children have already been brought home from occupation. But thousands are still waiting for their path back to safety.