Posted on 03/05/2023 8:00:17 AM PST by dennisw
'Putin has STOLEN our Ukrainian children': Distraught parents tell how THOUSANDS of youngsters never returned from 'summer camps' they went to after being rounded up by Russian troops in 'campaign' likened to ISIS abduction of Yazidi girls
Ukraine says it has confirmed that more than 16,000 children have been taken Parents have being tricked into allowing their children to attend 'summer camps'
Ukrainian parents have shared their heartbreak at not knowing where their children are or if they will ever see them again after Russian forces kidnapped thousands of youngsters and transported them to 're-education camps' in Russia - in a policy likened to abductions carried out by terror group ISIS.
A study by Yale University last month found more than 6,000 children aged between four months and 17 years have been taken to 43 camps across Russia, including in Moscow-annexed Crimea and Siberia, for 'pro-Russia patriotic and military-related education'. It is thought the true number is far higher.
Russia has tried to cast the relocation of the children as saving orphans or bringing them to camps for medical care - but Ukrainians say children are either being abducted outright or their parents are pressured or tricked into giving them up.
But International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan has this week likened the large-scale kidnappings to those carried out by terror groups such as ISIS, who took Yazidi girls from their homes.
Mr Khan, who has visited Ukraine three times, told The Sunday Times he has 'never seen anything like this'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Speaking to the paper, parents of missing children described becoming suspicious when children came home describing so-called summer camps which would see them leave for several weeks with less than one day’s notice.
Some of these camps were in Russian-occupied territory, others in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea.
The few times parents have managed to contact their children, they were initially told of fun activities - but also that everything was in Russian and that they were made to sing the Russian national anthem every morning.
Several parents described being informed that their children’s return home would be delayed by a few days, then a few weeks, then more than a month.
Their children would be moved to different camps, and eventually would become uncontactable.
It has even been reported some Ukrainian parents were offered money to travel to Russia or its annexed areas, where they could be reunited with their children if they agreed to live there.
Just 300 children are believed to have made it back to Ukraine, out of tens of thousands of potential victims.
Back to your youtube channel....
Crimes against humanity.
Summer camps. Rich white folks needing quiet time from parenting.
Incubators and bayonets too?
Your side lost. Give it up propagandist. State Department Sads...... Bunch of Nazi Apologists.
Why does this sound like more Kiev propo?
Ukraine IS a hotbed of human trafficking and an HONEST international investigation is called for…but won’t happen…and we can guess why
Meanwhile…let Kiev make public a list of names and let the ICRC do its job of reunification …gonna bet won’t happen …and we can guess why
Have they checked the White House basement?
Putin and his deep-state Kremlin-Soviet friends, together with their pro-islamic Iranian allies have put in place a self-destrcutive ideology.
They are destroying and invading other nations, but in the process they are also profoundly destroying Russia’s soul and its future well being.
Russia has already lost the war of the hearts and minds.
“Why does this sound like more Kiev propo?”
This kidnapping looks real to me. Russia has an abysmal birthrate for real ethnic Russians. What better way to increase the Slavic/Russian numbers within Russia, than to kidnap Ukrainian children. And to obviously raise them as Russians
As for you Putin Puffers. Keep puffing
I woner what the groomers are going to teach our kids at summer camps this year?
Thanks for posting...a little reality check.
Hi there LgbtLesbianThespianGymnasticMidget,
So you are a Soviet-Stalinist apologist, wow!
Did you know your communist friends killed more than the nazis ever did?
One hundred million deaths! You enjoy that side of communism? Really?
You Russian trolls are hilarious. You need help.
Russia has already lost the war of the hearts and minds.
We want nations respecting BORDERS. You have no respect for BORDERS.
Ah... communism, cancer, radical Islam, Sovietism.... such a sickness... we need to find a cure for that. Maybe a dose of intelligence would help?
Shades of the Nazi “Lebensborn” program, which stole Aryan-looking Polish children from their parents, and gave them to German families.
Ooh, good one. The PedoPres would go for this. That helps explain his printing out dosh and forwarding (most) it to Uk.
OOOOOh, were there nooses, too?
It is March, “summer” camps? Really? And, what would the aggrieved left go on about if kiddies were returned to an active war zone?
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