04:12Mandatory credit: 00:00 - 03:03 Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights press service
20 Russian children returned home from Syria, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova reported on Sunday.
The footage shows children boarding the plane, where doctors from the Pirogov Russian Children's Clinical Hospital and the Federal Centre for Disaster Medicine were seen examining them.
"7 girls, 13 boys aged from 5 to 15. There are brothers and sisters among them. The children are waiting to meet their families: grandmothers, grandfathers, and aunts. They will soon go home to seven regions of the country. The children were examined by doctors on the way. One of the boys has shrapnel wounds in his leg. The state of health of the other children is good," she said.
Lvova-Belova also added that blood samples were taken from another 69 children in the Rozh refugee camp in Zaevfratieh 'for DNA genetic tests to determine their kinship to Russian citizens'.
For his part, Ruslan Sayfullin, a doctor at the Pirogov Research Institute, assessed the condition of the returned children as 'satisfactory', adding that medical staff 'have not found any serious abnormalities affecting the [ability to take a] flight'.
"In the future children will be taken to the hospital, where some of them will undergo a thorough examination due to the diagnosed chronic conditions. Some of them will be additionally examined for further treatment in a rehabilitation centre," Sayfullin explained.
According to ombudsman Lvova-Belova, 566 children from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey have been returned to Russia since 2018.
20 Russian children return home from Syrian refugee camps
20 Russian children returned home from Syria, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova reported on Sunday.
The footage shows children boarding the plane, where doctors from the Pirogov Russian Children's Clinical Hospital and the Federal Centre for Disaster Medicine were seen examining them.
"7 girls, 13 boys aged from 5 to 15. There are brothers and sisters among them. The children are waiting to meet their families: grandmothers, grandfathers, and aunts. They will soon go home to seven regions of the country. The children were examined by doctors on the way. One of the boys has shrapnel wounds in his leg. The state of health of the other children is good," she said.
Lvova-Belova also added that blood samples were taken from another 69 children in the Rozh refugee camp in Zaevfratieh 'for DNA genetic tests to determine their kinship to Russian citizens'.
For his part, Ruslan Sayfullin, a doctor at the Pirogov Research Institute, assessed the condition of the returned children as 'satisfactory', adding that medical staff 'have not found any serious abnormalities affecting the [ability to take a] flight'.
"In the future children will be taken to the hospital, where some of them will undergo a thorough examination due to the diagnosed chronic conditions. Some of them will be additionally examined for further treatment in a rehabilitation centre," Sayfullin explained.
According to ombudsman Lvova-Belova, 566 children from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey have been returned to Russia since 2018.
Mandatory credit: 00:00 - 03:03 Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights press service
20 Russian children returned home from Syria, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova reported on Sunday.
The footage shows children boarding the plane, where doctors from the Pirogov Russian Children's Clinical Hospital and the Federal Centre for Disaster Medicine were seen examining them.
"7 girls, 13 boys aged from 5 to 15. There are brothers and sisters among them. The children are waiting to meet their families: grandmothers, grandfathers, and aunts. They will soon go home to seven regions of the country. The children were examined by doctors on the way. One of the boys has shrapnel wounds in his leg. The state of health of the other children is good," she said.
Lvova-Belova also added that blood samples were taken from another 69 children in the Rozh refugee camp in Zaevfratieh 'for DNA genetic tests to determine their kinship to Russian citizens'.
For his part, Ruslan Sayfullin, a doctor at the Pirogov Research Institute, assessed the condition of the returned children as 'satisfactory', adding that medical staff 'have not found any serious abnormalities affecting the [ability to take a] flight'.
"In the future children will be taken to the hospital, where some of them will undergo a thorough examination due to the diagnosed chronic conditions. Some of them will be additionally examined for further treatment in a rehabilitation centre," Sayfullin explained.
According to ombudsman Lvova-Belova, 566 children from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey have been returned to Russia since 2018.