Vereshchuk: Ukraine ready to pick up Russian deported orphans at border with any EU country
Ukraine is ready to pick up orphaned children deported by Russia at Russia's border with any European Union country.
The deputy prime minister and minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, said this.
As a representative of the government, I officially express my readiness to take away all our orphans. To do this I propose the following mechanism. Through the mediation of international organizations - UN, ICRC or others - we are ready to come to any European country on the border with Russia. For example, in Estonia, in Narva. And there we could pick up all Ukrainian orphans who are now illegally held by Russia," the deputy prime minister said.
According to her, the return process is now being carried out on a case-by-case basis. It is complicated and lengthy - the search, all the necessary procedures and the journey take many months. However, Ukraine has already managed to free 327 children from Russian captivity.