27/06/2026
Ukrainian civilians have returned home after years of illegal detention by Russia. Seven more Ukrainian civilians who had been unlawfully held in Russian captivity for years have been brought home, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said.
“Ukrainians aged 35 to 66 have returned to their homeland. All of them were illegally detained by the Russians in 2022 during the occupation of Mariupol and parts of the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk regions.
In the Kyiv region, this concerns the Bucha district, where the occupiers committed atrocities in 2022.
One of the Ukrainians was abducted from his own home solely because his son serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Another was kidnapped directly from his workplace in the agricultural sector, where he was working at the time of the Russian invasion.
Among those released is also a volunteer who joined Tyra’s Angels in Mariupol in 2022. Tyra herself was detained alongside him that same day, and we managed to bring her home earlier.