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Ten Ukrainian children and their families have been returned to territory controlled by Ukraine’s armed forces after living under Russian occupation, authorities in Kyiv said Thursday. Ukraine has accused Moscow of abducting almost 20,000 children from parts of the east and south of the country, while many more have found themselves living under Russian occupation after Moscow’s troops invaded in February 2022. “The children and their families lived in the temporarily occupied territories in the Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions,” human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said. Lubinets s…