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Nearly fifty children are planned to be taken out of Syria, where they are currently being held in prisons and camps, TASS reports.
According to the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova, work is currently underway to prepare the relevant documents. She said that almost one and a half hundred names were included in the lists of young Russians. The DNA research has already been completed for 49 of them. Nevertheless, the ombudswoman does not think that the work in Syria will go as fast as it was in Iraq.
Now there is access only to orphans living in the Al Khol camp. And those who do this work are very at risk. Anna Kuznetsova thanked the Russian Ministry of Defense, as the military organized constant escort for children of all ages. The oldest are almost 17 years old, the youngest are several months old. Difficulties arise also with the fact that the names and surnames are spelled incorrectly, and some names are unknown.
Anna Kuznetsova added that work in Syria just began, the children there were in much worse conditions than in Iraq.
Other countries are turning to Russia for consultations, as about five hundred foreign children remain in Iraqi and Syrian prisons.
The day before, an airplane from Baghdad landed at the Zhukovsky airport near Moscow. More than thirty Russian children returned to Russia. Their parents are citizens of the Russian Federation, who once fell under the influence of the Islamic State organization (banned in Russia) and left for Iraq with the kids.
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