VATICAN (CNS): Thanks to a handful of countries, including the Vatican, some 1,600 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia have been reunited with family members in Ukraine.
Four of the young people met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on November 21 to express their thanks and to ask for a more formal, systematic effort to facilitate the return of at least 19,000 Ukrainian children believed to be in Russia.
The young people were accompanied by family members; Iryna Vereshchuk, an official in the office of Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is working on the project, “Bring Kids Back Ukraine”; Andrii Yurash, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See; and US senator, Amy Klobuchar.
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