Posted on 10/13/2022 1:29:08 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol, and she was going out of her mind with worry.
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The questions looped endlessly in her head: Should she try to rescue the children herself — and risk being killed, making them orphans yet again? Or should she campaign to get them out from afar — and risk them being killed or falling into the hands of the Russians?
She had no idea her dilemma would lead her straight into a battle against Russia, with the highest stakes of her life.
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Russia’s open effort to adopt Ukrainian children and bring them up as Russian is already well underway, in one of the most explosive issues of the war, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Thousands of children have been found in the basements of war-torn cities like Mariupol and at orphanages in the Russian-backed separatist territories of Donbas. They include those whose parents were killed by Russian shelling as well as others in institutions or with foster families, known as “children of the state.”
Russia claims that these children don’t have parents or guardians to look after them, or that they can’t be reached. But the AP found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren’t wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship.
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Is that any worse then how you war mongering leftest lgbtqwhatever grab kids and groom them to be perverted?
Well since Russians don’t have enough children, and Russia is wasting a generation of its young men in the war, Russia needs to repopulate itself somehow.
But the AP found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren’t wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship.
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What? You mean the Russians didn’t shoot the Ukrainian children?
When ‘news’ is skewed and twisted to fit a narrative ....
If I was a hoho kid and somebody “russianized” me, I’d be celebrating for the rest of my life...
Russia steals the kids that survive the kindergarden bombings.
Strikes Destroy Homes, Kindergarten in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia - Oct 10,2022
this is propaganda for children
will you add the children to your “losses report”?
Isn’t this pretty much what the Ukrainians were doing to ethnic Russian areas for 8 years?
So Russia is like the Snake Magician dude who killed Conan the Barbarian’s parents and kidnapped Conan when he was little.
Didn’t work out so well for Snake dude.
I hope these kids are all rescued from Russia and don’t have to wait 25 years to kill their kidnappers.
Bkmk
“given them Russian families and citizenship”
Well, I suppose that’s one way Russia can try to stop the bleeding of mass numbers of ethnic Russians fleeing the country (which was happening long before the war in Ukraine or the mobilization).
putin is evil. lock him up or take him out!
Can we nominate the “Zeeper kids” posting here??
Why can't they just import a lot of people from south of their border? It's so easy for us.
Not defending Russia…they are heinous…but so are those who would brainwash American kids.
I don’t believe a word that SARAH EL DEEB, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNA write for the Associated Press.
Isn’t this pretty much what the Ukrainians were doing to ethnic Russian areas for 8 years?4
This is exactly what Russia has been doing to its neighbors for 300 or so years. You might want to crack open a book and learn about it.
No, you dumb American. It isn’t.
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