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Air raid alerts rang out across Ukraine as a massive swarm of attack drones crossed the Russian border shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time.

At least one Ukrainian air alert tracker reported roughly 200 Shahed-type drones in Ukrainian airspace.

Ukraine's Air Force warned shortly before noon that drones were heading toward Kyiv from the north, around the time air raid sirens sounded across the capital. Explosions from air defense activity were heard shortly afterward.

A significant number of the drones appeared to be heading farther south and west toward the central Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi. Khmelnytskyi Oblast Military Governor Serhii Tiurin wrote on Telegram that air defenses were operating in the region and reported that two people had been injured.

Photo: Chomy Tryvoha/Telegram.

Ministers from 58 countries announced a sweep of new pledges to help Ukraine bring back more than 20,000 children who have been abducted by Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion, during a high-level event dedicated to the topic in Brussels on May 11.

The event, co-hosted by the EU, Canada, and Ukraine, followed a meeting of EU foreign ministers, in which they agreed to sanction 23 individuals involved in Russia's abduction of children. Canada also sanctioned 23 entities, and the U.K. a further 29 entities linked to Russia's deportation and militarization of Ukrainian children.

Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children is an act of genocide, according to the U.N.'s Genocide Convention, which lists "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" as one of the five acts that fall under the definition.

Read more: https://kyivindependent.com/bringing-ukraines-kids-back-almost-60-countries-unite-to-stop-russias-genocidal-kidnapping-of-children/

Photo: European Commisison.

Released Ukrainian POWs honored mothers of the missing and captive during a support rally in Cherkasy on May 10.

Coinciding with Mother’s Day, former prisoners of war handed out flowers to the women still waiting for their loved ones to return from Russian captivity.

Video: vitaliia_r / threads.