UKRAINE, Feb 2 — Save Ukraine returned four more children who were in the temporarily occupied territories.

The Save Ukraine [a non-governmental organization that regularly organizes rescue missions to return deported children from Russia — ed.] organisation informed about this.

“Today, our team returned four more children from the occupied parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts. The children are aged zero to 16. All of them are safe in one of our centers,” the statement reads.

The 15th rescue mission is underway. Overall, 231 deported children have been rescued during the full-scale invasion.

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Russians state that more than 700,000 Ukrainian children are on the territory of the Russian Federation. Ukraine has confirmed the deportation of more than 19,500. Ukrainian law enforcement officers are aware of over 500 cases of deportation of children from the occupied territories of the Kharkiv Oblast.