Some of Ukraine's returned children say they left Russian-occupied cities to escape the war and went to holiday camps in Crimea but, after arriving there, they were told they would be adopted.
Moscow — which control chunks of Ukraine's east and south — denies abducting children and says they have been transported away for their own safety.
"There were kids who changed their locations five times in five months. Some children say that they were living with rats and cockroaches," he said. The three said they had been separated from their parents, who were pressured by Russian authorities to send their children to Russian summer camps for what was billed as two weeks, from occupied parts of Kherson and Kharkiv regions.
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