Don't Forget: Putin Has Kidnapped At Least 19,500 Ukrainian Children Who Need to Be Repatriated

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...[T]he tens of thousands of Ukrainian children now at the center of Kyiv’s demands for peace. Deported or disappeared into Russia, their plight has united American politicians to pressure President Donald Trump for their safe return and spurred war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deputy, children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, for their illegal transfer — charges a Kremlin spokesman disputed as “outrageous and unacceptable.”...

Exactly how many children are missing is unknown.

The Conflict Observatory — part of Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which has consistently provided the most accurate data but will shutter on July 1 because of Trump’s federal funding cuts — has verified that at least 19,500 children were forcibly deported from occupied areas of Ukraine, funneled into reeducation camps or adopted by Russian families, their identities erased.

The real number is probably much higher, senior Ukrainian officials say, but cannot be proved because of poor recordkeeping. “Maybe 50,000. Maybe 100,000. Maybe higher. Only Russia can provide us with this information,” said Mykola Kuleba, former children’s ombudsman for Ukraine and head of the nonprofit Save Ukraine.

In three years of full-scale war, only a small fraction of them have been returned — about 1,300 children — in deals brokered by Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Holy See, as well as in covert rescue missions run by volunteers.

Progress is slow and excruciating because Russia “changes their names, their place of birth, their date of birth,” said Daria Zarivna, an adviser to Zelensky’s chief of staff who works on the Ukrainian initiative Bring Kids Back UA. “All ties are cut.”...

 

[Parrish]

Bring them home.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Evil

 

[Lursa]

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www.washingtonpost.com

...[T]he tens of thousands of Ukrainian children now at the center of Kyiv’s demands for peace. Deported or disappeared into Russia, their plight has united American politicians to pressure President Donald Trump for their safe return and spurred war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deputy, children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, for their illegal transfer — charges a Kremlin spokesman disputed as “outrageous and unacceptable.”...

Exactly how many children are missing is unknown.

The Conflict Observatory — part of Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which has consistently provided the most accurate data but will shutter on July 1 because of Trump’s federal funding cuts — has verified that at least 19,500 children were forcibly deported from occupied areas of Ukraine, funneled into reeducation camps or adopted by Russian families, their identities erased.

The real number is probably much higher, senior Ukrainian officials say, but cannot be proved because of poor recordkeeping. “Maybe 50,000. Maybe 100,000. Maybe higher. Only Russia can provide us with this information,” said Mykola Kuleba, former children’s ombudsman for Ukraine and head of the nonprofit Save Ukraine.

In three years of full-scale war, only a small fraction of them have been returned — about 1,300 children — in deals brokered by Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Holy See, as well as in covert rescue missions run by volunteers.

Progress is slow and excruciating because Russia “changes their names, their place of birth, their date of birth,” said Daria Zarivna, an adviser to Zelensky’s chief of staff who works on the Ukrainian initiative Bring Kids Back UA. “All ties are cut.”...

And I never hear them mentioned, from either side, re: negotiations

 

[Rogue Valley]

700K Ukrainian Children Transferred to Russia Since Invasion – Official - The Moscow Times

Russia has “received” more than 700,000 Ukrainian children after launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia’s presidential commissioner for children's rights said in a report published Sunday. “Since February 2022, the Russian Federation has received about 4.8 million...

www.themoscowtimes.com

Russia's Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova (above) is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

 

[Peacenik]

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...[T]he tens of thousands of Ukrainian children now at the center of Kyiv’s demands for peace. Deported or disappeared into Russia, their plight has united American politicians to pressure President Donald Trump for their safe return and spurred war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deputy, children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, for their illegal transfer — charges a Kremlin spokesman disputed as “outrageous and unacceptable.”...

Exactly how many children are missing is unknown.

The Conflict Observatory — part of Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which has consistently provided the most accurate data but will shutter on July 1 because of Trump’s federal funding cuts — has verified that at least 19,500 children were forcibly deported from occupied areas of Ukraine, funneled into reeducation camps or adopted by Russian families, their identities erased.

The real number is probably much higher, senior Ukrainian officials say, but cannot be proved because of poor recordkeeping. “Maybe 50,000. Maybe 100,000. Maybe higher. Only Russia can provide us with this information,” said Mykola Kuleba, former children’s ombudsman for Ukraine and head of the nonprofit Save Ukraine.

In three years of full-scale war, only a small fraction of them have been returned — about 1,300 children — in deals brokered by Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Holy See, as well as in covert rescue missions run by volunteers.

Progress is slow and excruciating because Russia “changes their names, their place of birth, their date of birth,” said Daria Zarivna, an adviser to Zelensky’s chief of staff who works on the Ukrainian initiative Bring Kids Back UA. “All ties are cut.”...

That is chilling.

For the magacult to turn their heads on this is disgusting.

It all but condones this travesty.

 

[Peacenik]

So glad Ukraine was able to pull off that amazing drone attack. Russia so deserved that.

Our president has no heart. Anyone with a pulse would have kept assisting an ally in distress. What an asshole.