Mother hitchhikes into Russia to save child from summer camp - as hundreds more youngsters remain stranded

The Russian occupation radio and newspaper adverts promoted a summer break away from the war, free of charge. But then the frontlines shifted suddenly, and everything changed. Hundreds of Ukrainian children remain stranded at Russian holiday camps, with one mother forced to hitchhike into enemy territory to rescue her daughter. The Russian occupation radio and newspaper adverts promoted a summer break away from the war, free of charge. Hundreds of families in the occupied east and south agreed. One bus convoy left Izyum at the end of August, with the promise that the children would return home in time for the school year. Instead, Ukrainian forces swept though in early September, driving the Russians into a disorganised retreat and liberating territory that had been in enemy hands for months. Ukraine latest news: Putin 'faces imminent defeat' in area he's about to declare part of Russia Fifty-two children - aged between nine and 16 - from Izyum and 250 more from other towns in the Khar