32 children who returned to Russia from Syria were hospitalized at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health. The children’s condition is assessed as stable, the director of the medical institution, Elena Petryaykina, told Izvestia.

There are 12 girls and 20 boys among those hospitalized. Each child is a citizen of Russia and is under the personal care of Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, the newspaper writes. As it became known on March 10, another group of Russian children who were in refugee camps in Syria was returning to Russia.