Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia

3 de July, 2023

Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday.

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