Daria Herasymchuk, Ukrainian presidential advisor for children’s rights, said on April 9 that after returning to Ukraine from Russia, children complain of beatings and other punishments for refusing to sing the Russian anthem and for mentioning that they are Ukrainians.
As punishment, Ukrainian children were not allowed to go for walks and were forced to rewrite Russian texts, she added.
According to Herasymchuk, the children said they were told that their parents “abandoned” them and that they should not return to Ukraine, where “no one is waiting for them.”
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The Russian supervisors at the facilities where they are held do “everything that their sick imagination and fantasy permits” she said.
According to a Ukrainian national database, over 19,000 children have been abducted to Russia since Russia’a all-out invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
Monkfich on April 10th, 2023 at 17:23 UTC »
Isn’t it an attempt at genocide to try and destroy a people? If a country - or parts of it - have all their kids stolen, it seriously impacts population… obviously.
muffman81 on April 10th, 2023 at 13:58 UTC »
Strong children 🇺🇦❤️
retiredhobo on April 10th, 2023 at 13:24 UTC »
“as long as you are kidnapped under my roof, you follow my rules”