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A Ukrainian humanitarian organization has helped 23 children and young adults leave Russian-occupied territories over the past week, including a nine-year-old boy whose mother was allegedly threatened after he drew a Ukrainian flag at school.

Ukraine has returned 11 children, the youngest just 16 months old, from Russian-occupied parts of Kherson Oblast, where some were forced to undergo weapons and combat drone training or faced threats of separation from their families, regional officials said on Oct. 12.