cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/41905956
Ukraine has identified about 400 locations in Russia where Russians have transported kidnapped Ukrainian children.
This was reported by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a telegram.
It is estimated that about 19 500 abducted Ukrainian children are currently in the Russian Federation. More than 1 600 children have been returned home.
The deportation of Ukrainian children is one of Russiaʼs war crimes, for which the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin and the Russian Childrenʼs Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova.
Ukraine also has evidence that Belarus is participating in the deportation of Ukrainian children.
In September, researchers found out more than 200 Russian institutions for the “re-education” of Ukrainian children — where they assemble drones and undergo airborne training. In the detention centers, some of the children were involved in the Russian program of forced upbringing and adoption, after which they were transferred to Russian families and granted Russian citizenship.
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Several countries, including the UK, Canada, Norway, Finland, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Switzerland and Sweden are involved in the scheme, which was launched by Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, reports The Times.
Official figures suggest that 19,546 children have been taken from their homes against their will by Russia since the conflict began. However, earlier this year, a team of experts from Yale University estimated that about 35,000 Ukrainian children listed as missing may be in Russia, or Russian-occupied territories. Some were taken from orphanages, others from their homes, schools, or shelters.
Abducting children is one of the worst crimes someone can commit. You only grow up once so you are stripping a person of their childhood which means that as an adult they will grow up to have serious problems.
I’d argue it can be worse than murder
I’m sure they’ll be fine. Once the war is over, the media will just forget about the 100,000 or 200,000 allegedly abducted children. If they have family in Ukraine then they can go back, but it’s morally wrong to send children into an area where there’s a war. Sending children back to donbass is itself a war crime, one that Zelensky seems desperate to commit.
Wait, you’re sure they’ll be fine? I’m sure you’d be totally okay with foreign soldiers ripping into your chikdhood house, taking you from your parents and taking you to a foreign land to be raised by…some randos?
I’m pretty sure that they aren’t raiding houses and abducting children from their parents. That sounds like propaganda. If the parents and children were found together, they’d be moved as a group.
I wish it WAS propaganda. Regardless, how would abducting any people make things better?
By getting them out of a country that’s not safe?
WAS SAFE, is now no longer safe due to Russian aggression. I’m going to go out on a limb though and guess you’ll never say anything remotely close to that.
From what I’ve seen that is exactly what they are doing
If it could be proven then I think we’d see evidence all over BBC and CNN.