Ukraine wants children who were evacuated to Italy to escape the war to come back. But it’s not proving easy | CNN

When a children’s home director evacuated 25 minors from war-torn Ukraine to Italy, she thought it would be temporary.

Italian courts have blocked dozens of minors from going home, Ukraine says, with one 15-year-old boy adopted despite his mother wanting him to return to Ukraine.

Ukraine says more than 300 children are being prevented from returning, mostly in Italy, Germany and Austria.

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When Ukrainian children’s home director Liubov Rudyka took the minors in her care to Naples after Russia invaded, she thought she was bringing them to safety. It never occurred to her that Italy might not want to give them back. And yet, four years later, their return has become a legal battlefield.