In Ukraine, an 11-year-old girl and her father were killed Sunday as Russia’s military struck a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. The violence came as a Ukrainian charity said it has reunited dozens of children with their families over the past week, after they were deported from occupied parts of Ukraine. Russia has denied abducting the children, but said some youth were evacuated from the frontlines for their own safety. This is Natalia Rakk, a mother who reunited with her twin daughters on Friday, months after they were taken to Russian-occupied Crimea and told they would be put up for adoption.

Natalia Rakk: “It was terribly difficult, but we kept on going. We did not sleep at night. We slept sitting up. We stopped very little. Our goal was to pick the children up. We knew that we had to achieve it despite all obstacles. Yes, we left everything behind, relatives and friends.”

Ukraine says more than 19,000 children have been taken to Russian territory since President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to invade Ukraine last year. The United Nations has said the forced deportations violate international humanitarian law and amount to a war crime.