A plane carrying 38 Russian children arrived from Syria at Chkalovsky airport on the night from Thursday to Friday. This was reported by the press service of Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights.
"With the assistance of Maria Lvova-Belova, 38 Russian children returned home from Syria. A Russian Air Force plane with Russian children arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow on the night of October 21. Thirty-eight children aged 4 to 14, including 15 girls and 23 boys, returned home. From the airfield, the children were taken to one of the federal medical centers," it was reported.
The press service added that after a full examination, the children will be handed over to relatives, specialists of the office of the commissioner will help with the necessary documents, and children's ombudsmen on the ground will support these children and their families. "Currently, the office of the commissioner for children's rights has more than 1 thousand more applications from relatives who were separated from their grandchildren, nephews, children who are in Syria and Iraq," said the press service.
They also said that the children's ombudsman was accompanied by representatives of the foreign ministry and the health ministry. Specialists of the forensic medical examination center, who were part of the Russian delegation, took biological material from the children in the refugee camps for DNA analysis in order to establish and confirm the relationship and process the applications received.
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Based on materials from TASS