Overview
- Nineteen children were flown home on November 1 after paperwork and medical checks, following the return of 16 minors identified between October 9 and 16.
- The cases spanned 11 locations, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd, Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod, Abakan in Khakassia, Makhachkala, Novosibirsk, and the Moscow region.
- Uzbekistan’s embassy in Moscow worked with the interior and health ministries and the National Agency for Social Protection to establish identities, issue documents, and arrange transport.
- Officials did not disclose individual circumstances; reporting notes such separations often follow deportations, arrests, or deaths of labor-migrant parents, and some infants may have been left in maternity hospitals.
- Tashkent characterizes the effort as delivering important practical results, with earlier returns reported in April as part of an ongoing program.