Russia accused of taking thousands of Ukrainian children
An investigation shows that Russia's overt attempt to adopt Ukrainian children and raise Ukrainian children the Russian way is well underway, one of the most explosive issues in the world. war.
Thousands of Ukrainian children have been found in the basements of war-torn cities like Mariupol and in orphanages in the Russian-backed separatist region of Donbas. They include people whose parents were killed by Russian shelling as well as others in institutes or with adoptive families, known as "children of the state".
Russia claims that these Ukrainian Children have no parents or guardians to take care of them, or that they cannot be contacted. But AP found that officials deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that their parents didn't want them, used them to propagandize. passed on and gave them Russian family and citizenship.
This is the largest investigation to date into the abduction of Ukrainian children, and the first to follow the procedure for children who have grown up in Russia. AP draws from dozens of interviews with parents, Ukrainian children and officials in both Ukraine and Russia; email and correspondence; Russian documents and Russian state media.
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