Children taken hostage, thousands of Ukrainian families fight against time to get their children stranded in Russian areas back

Odessa – “We lived in Kherson during the Russian occupation. My daughter, Katya (not her real name), is 12 years old. Since September, school for her has started according to the Russian calendar. In October, we were offered to send two weeks the children on a school trip to the Crimea, to the city of Yevpatoria, to the Druzhba recreation ground”, the voice of Tatyana Leus, 47, from Kherson,