As Ukrainian troops pushed into Kherson last fall to try and retake the region from Russian control, parents were being pressured by local Russian officials to send their children away to Russian-occupied Crimea, where they said they would be safer staying at summer camp.
The families told CBC News they were promised that the short break along the sea would be good for the children.
Some parents were even told they would be returned within a few weeks.
But the reunion took nearly half a year.
“It was not summer camps, it was a trick,” said Mykola Kuleba, the founder of Save Ukraine, a foundation which
