Grigory Lukyantsev Photo: Global Look Press
In Since April of this year, the Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations contacted dozens of Ukrainian families living in Western countries and asked for help in returning their children, selected by the services of these states. This was announced by the head of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Grigory Lukyantsev, on Channel One.
Ukrainian families who requested help, he says, are talking about pressure from the Kyiv authorities. , who addressed problems of “some political nature” to their citizens.
Lukyantsev noted that the Russian mission to the UN continues to receive such calls from the people of Ukraine. He noted that Moscow will deal with each case separately.