MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) - Another 25 residents of Russia's Kursk region have returned home from Ukraine, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said.
"Twenty-five Kursk region residents, who were taken away by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the Sumy region, are finally returning home after a long separation and anxious wait," Moskalkova said on her Telegram channel on Friday.
There are many elderly people over the age of 85 among them, and one of the women is 92, she said.
"Their relatives did not know their loved ones' whereabouts for months, they were worrying and praying for them, hoping for a miracle. And it happened! [We] contacted them every day, clarified and shared information, supported them as best we could," she said.
Moskalkova thanked the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Russian Red Cross, the relevant authorities, and the acting governor of the Kursk region, as well as the Republic of Belarus for its mediation effort.