The mother of the exhausted children found explained how they were left alone in the apartment.

According to the channel, a 26-year-old mother of many children, who had two children with her – a seven-year-old boy and a newborn – was found by police not far from home. The woman said she was away from home on business.

When she and the children were taken to the police department, one of them became ill, he was hospitalized.

Earlier, it was reported that emergency workers found two exhausted girls between two and five years old in an apartment in a residential building on 1st Volskaya Street on Monday, and one of them was also diagnosed with hypothermia. There were no parents in the apartment, the doctors were called to the scene.