This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova.

“With the assistance of Anna Kuznetsova, Plenipotentiary under the President of the Russian Federation, 26 Russian children who were in orphanages in Damascus have been returned to their homeland from the Syrian Arab Republic,” the message says.

Earlier it was reported that 26 Russian children who were in orphanages in Damascus would return to Russia from Syria.