More than a dozen Ukrainian children and teenagers were recently rescued from Russian-occupied territories in the country, officials announced this week.

Some of the 35,000 Ukrainian kids believed to have been abducted by Russian troops since the start of the war.

So far, 1,625 of the children have been returned to Ukraine so far, President Volodymir Zelensky said. 4

One 17-year-old boy who was among those recently rescued was taken in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers and interrogated for hours at gunpoint.

“He was threatened and intimidated because of his pro-Ukrainian stance,” Zelensky’s right-hand man Andriy Yermak wrote on X Thursday .

A 16-year-old girl who rejected a Russian school was allegedly threatened with being separated from her mother, Yermak wrote, w

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