Overview
- Sixteen minors were identified and returned between October 9 and 16 from Saint Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Moscow.
- Another 19 children were flown to Tashkent on November 1 after documentation and medical examinations were completed.
- The children were located across 11 Russian regions, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod, Khakassia (Abakan), Makhachkala, Novosibirsk and the Moscow Region.
- Uzbek coordination involved the embassy in Moscow and domestic ministries for interior, health and social protection in cooperation with Russian competent authorities.
- Officials did not disclose case details, while reporting links many such separations to deportations, arrests or deaths of migrant parents, and the ongoing effort has repatriated over 100 children with a separate August action aiding roughly a thousand citizens.