More than 10 Ukrainian children were saved by the employees of an orphanage in the Kherson region from being deported to Russia, BTV reported. 

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The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children is located in the village of Stepanovka, near Kherson.

It housed children whose parents abandoned them or were unable to care for them.

The 61-year-old director of the center, Vladimir Sagaidak, says that a few months ago, the Russian military brought 15 children from an orphanage in Novopetrivka, Mykolaiv region.

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The Russians appeared in Stepanovka with armored cars a few months ago. 

44-year-old Galina Kulakovska, who was a teacher at the orphanage, has heard stories of the abduction of dozens of children, even newborn babies.

She was shocked by this and was determined not to let the same thing happen to the children she cared for at the orphanage in Stepanovka. 

Kulakovska and Sagaidak decided to look for the children's parents, and so more than 10 children were saved, and only Katya, Vlad and Misha remained in the center. 

For a while they live with the nurse who works at the boarding school.

However, when the Russian troops begin to prepare for retreat, it becomes clear that the Russians will take the children with them.

The staff fears that the Russians will search the neighboring houses and find the children, so the teacher Galina Kulakovska decides to take them to her home in Kherson.

Kulakovska says that her apartment is located opposite the house where the Russian military lived, so she told her neighbors that her nephews had come to visit. 

The children were warned not to go away from her, not to mention the orphanage and not to talk to strangers.

On the night of November 11, Russian troops retreated from the right bank of the Dnieper River. 

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