{"id":467007,"date":"2026-02-13T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:52:07","slug":"ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-gets-update-on-olympics-ban-as-uk-reveals-400m-hypersonic-missiles-plan-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467007\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian gets update on Olympics ban &#8211; as UK reveals \u00a3400m hypersonic missiles plan | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s initiative, Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA, has announced that five of the thousands of children taken to Russia have been returned.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the children were taken from a children&#8217;s home in the southern Kherson region in 2022, the initiative said in a social media post. It is not clear from where the other two children were taken from.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative thanked Melania Trump for &#8220;her personal attention and consistent humanitarian leadership in helping to advance this process&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the US first lady wrote a letter to the Russian president highlighting the plight of Ukrainian children separated from their families by war.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband later hand-delivered it during his meeting with Putin in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of Ukraine has seen thousands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraines-missing-children-how-15-orphans-escaped-russia-and-the-thousands-left-behind-12859972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">children being taken out of their country<\/a>\u00a0by Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine estimates that around 20,000 children have been deported to Russia or forcibly transferred within occupied territories, which Russia denies.<\/p>\n<p>Only 1,985 children have been returned so far, according to Bring Kids Back UA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s initiative, Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA, has announced that five of the thousands of children taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-467007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}