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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv and agencies

Children arrive in Belarus after being illegally removed from Ukraine

Kira and another children with a suitcase
Kira, 10, is one of the few children found after being illegally taken to Russia following a Russian-organised summer camp. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Ukrainian children who had been illegally deported to Russia have arrived in Belarus, where state media published photographs showing them waving Belarusian flags and flanked by riot police.

The 48 children come from the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, which Moscow claims it has annexed.

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