Ukraine says 16,000 children have been deported from Russian-held territory during the war – many by friends and relatives seeking to make money from fostering
The experience of the Popova family, and others who spoke to the Guardian, sheds light on another aspect of the removal of Ukrainian children to Russia: how friends and even relatives took children, sometimes for mercenary reasons.
Tracking her daughter down via social media, she found Alina had been taken to a village 1,500km inside Russia. In order to get her daughter back, there was only one option for Svitlana: to travel to Russia via a “terrifying” route through Poland and Belarus to appeal to the social services in an enemy country.
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