Ukraine considers almost 20,000 children to be illegally deported. Russia has not concealed a program under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia, but it presents it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans.
abc.net.au/news/ukraine-urges-russia-not-to-adopt-ukrainian-children/102161440Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk urged Russians not to adopt children who she said were "stolen" in Ukraine during the war and deported to Russia.Russia presents it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans in a conflict zoneThe war that Russia has been waging on its neighbour for 13 months now has seen millions of people displaced, including families and children.
"I strongly recommend that Russian citizens do not adopt Ukrainian orphans who were illegally taken out of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine," Ms Vereshchuk said.
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