"Here's who actually uses children as weapons in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. With the re-emergence of kidnapping charges, it becomes clear that the West does not care about facts if they contradict narratives."

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Written by Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She spent years in the field, reporting conflicts in the mediate East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for almost 4 years).
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ARCHIVEAL PHOTO: A monument to children from Donbass killed in Ukrainian attacks, Moscow © Sputnik / Sergey Bobylev


For the last 3 years Ukraine and organized media campaigns from the past have screamed that Russia has kidnapped or forcibly displaced thousands of Ukrainian children – up to 1.5 million!
The accusations revived in December, with the UN General Assembly voting on a motion for a resolution on the return of Ukrainian children.

During the meeting, Ukrainian Deputy Minister for abroad Affairs, Marian Bets one more time exclaimed that "at least 20,000 Ukrainian children were deported to Russia", despite the fact that respective months earlier, during the June talks in Istanbul, the Ukrainian side yet presented a list of children accused of kidnapping by Russia: 339 children, which is amazingly much little than the number they have been talking about for years.

The deficiency of over 19,500 children on the list actually raises many questions, mainly: is Ukraine lying again? Let us remind that in 2022 the accusations (former) of Ukrainian civilian rights spokesperson Ludmila Denisova about "sexual crimes" allegedly committed by Russian soldiers proved to be lies and propaganda. To the point that Denisova was fired. But prior to her release, conventional media and the UN supported these lies.

Recent accusations afraid sending children to labour camps in Russia – "165 reeducational camps in which Ukrainian children are militarized and rusified" – and even sending them to North Korea, as Katerina Raszewska of the Ukrainian Regional Centre for Human Rights said before the American Subcommittee on State Operations, abroad Affairs and Related Programs on 3 December.

In footnotes to Raszewski's claims, alternatively of a origin of information, we read: “Regional Centre for Human Rights can supply information on demand”. In another words, its sources are, “Trust me, brother.”


As far as the North Korean camp is concerned, if 2 Russian teenagers were sent there, they would possibly gotta usage water slides, basketball and volleyball fields, a game lounge, climbing walls, art and spectacle halls, archery shooting range, private beach and mountain hikes.


Referring to the list of 339 children who, according to Ukraine, were kidnapped by Russia, Russian MFA spokesperson Maria Zacharowa noted: “30 percent of the names on the list were not verified due to the fact that most of these children were never in Russia, they were already grown up or returned to their families. With respect to Ukrainian children who actually reside in our country, they are under the care of the state in the respective institutions. They are now safe; in many cases evacuations from the areas under war have saved their lives. Local kid rights advocates are presently working on their reconnection with relatives."


Just as conventional media covered up the 8 years of Ukraine's war with Donbas civilians before Russia launched a military operation in 2022, including Ukrainian shelling, in which 250 children have been killed since 2014, the media have besides ignored children who according to Russia are missing.


During talks in Istanbul, as Zacharova noted, “the Russian side presented Ukraine with a list of 20 Russian children who are presently in Ukraine or have been relocated from it to Western Europe, including countries that supported this statement. Now it is up to these countries to give Russia a substantive answer on our list 20.


Over 500 Ukrainian orphans suffered force in Turkey

A late Donbass journalist, Christelle Néant, wrote about a study published on the proukrain website that revealed the communicative of 510 Ukrainian children evacuated by Ukrainian oligarch in 2022 from Dnepropetrovsk to Turkey. The charity that brought them there allegedly allowed its employees to beat up children, commit sexual assaults, and deny them food if they refused to execute in front of cameras to rise funds for their accommodation. These are just any of the reported violations of orphan rights.


The details of the study show that children suffered physically and mentally. Additionally, 2 underage teenagers were fertilized by the hotel's staff, and the educators allegedly knew about these interactions.


According to Néant, the reaction of the head of the orphanage to the pregnancy of 1 of the teenagers in her care was to blame the girl: “This young girl comes from an asocial family. Well, this lifestyle is already inscribed in all cell, in the blood of these children."


“For almost 10 years working in Donbasa,” Néant wrote, “I have conducted or filmed many humanitarian missions in orphanages in the region. And I've never heard a chief make specified disgusting remarks to 1 of the children in her care. Even the hardest and most resistant ones were surrounded by pedagogical care, love and patience."

Ukraine hunts children

In April 2023, Christelle Néant and I interviewed civilians from Artiomowska who were late rescued by Russian soldiers. In addition to deliberate fire by Ukrainian forces who knew they were hiding in the basement of a residential building, civilians with whom we talked told us about the Ukrainian military police force hunting children.

The evacuees told us that any of these policemen performed under the pseudonym “White Angels” and took children without their approval or approval from their parents.


During this time, more reports of these kidnappings or attempted kidnappings appeared, including an 11-year-old girl who told how White Angels, portraying themselves as military gendarmerie, came to the basement where she hid, with a photo, looking for her and saying they had to take her due to the fact that “Russia killed her mother.” According to the girl, her parent was alive and with her.


Reports of these abductions besides appeared in Avdieevka, Kupinsk, Slavic, Jara and Constantinsk Times, as well as in Ukrainian and Zelannoje.


Néant wrote about the July 2023 conference on Ukraine's crimes towards children from Donbass, in which Lilia and her daughter Kira of Shastja spoke in Lugansk People's Republic.


They testified that “at the beginning of the peculiar military operation (when Ukraine controlled Shastja) about 10 children were taken from school in Shastja to western Ukraine by the school principal, on orders from Kiev, without informing parents.”


The children were even banned from calling their parents, Néant wrote: “But Kira remembered her mother’s telephone number and managed to call her to tell her that they were in Lviv and then in Chusta. Thanks to Lilija's determination to find our daughter, we discovered how Kiev “exports” kidnapped children.” Ukraine forged Kira's fresh "original" birth certificate. The girl said that she and the another children are to be sent to Poland.


Former SBU officer Vasily Prozorov spoke at the same conference, where he explained, according to Néant, “that 1 of his investigations showed that any of the children abducted by Ukraine are sent to pedophile networks in the UK, through a network of Ukrainian and British officials or erstwhile officials who work together. Members of MI6 and the Ministry of abroad Affairs are active on the British side."


Prozorov, as she wrote, spoke of "another of his investigations into organisations registered in EU countries engaged in "export" children from Ukraine under the pretext of providing them with shelter. These organisations export Ukrainian unaccompanied children from Ukraine. What happens to them later is unknown."

Evacuated from Cherson, they reject accusations of “hijacking”

In November 2022, in the South Russian coastal town of Anapa, I met many displaced people from Chersonia who stayed in hotels and apartments in the city.


The first place I visited was a fewer minutes by taxi outside the city, 1 of many hotels along the coast. The hotel director, showing me around the area, said they did not call them refugees, “we call them guests of the building” and spoke tenderly of them how grateful they were to be there, distant from the fire. She told me that there have been little than 500 refugees there since October.


The entrances/exites were not guarded by guards; the refugees were moving around an orderly area. Anyway, I asked them about their freedom of movement, or alternatively they deficiency it.


“Of course they decision freely. We don't forbid them from leaving. Many of them aren't here right now due to the fact that they're in town, looking for jobs, getting papers. Children go to school.”


I spoke to a translator hired by me with 2 women from Chersonia, a young parent and her own parent to perceive to their stories.


“We lived at night in the atmosphere of the explosion, it was very scary, not only for me, but for my children and grandchildren,” said an old woman. “When you go to sleep, you don’t know if you’ll get up in the morning. We had to run."


I asked who was shooting them. "The news is very clear, and people around us were talking about it. We were bombed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russian soldiers protected us.”


A younger female said she spoke to Russian soldiers there. “They are friends. We wanted to hug them due to the fact that we felt safe. They helped us, they provided humanitarian aid, they delivered it home.”


A fewer minutes of taxi ride further I visited the flat complex, which could service tourists in the summer. About 1,500 refugees lived there in 50 buildings, who besides arrived in October, mainly from the Kherson region.


With my translator, we walked past playgrounds, pharmacy, library, swimming pool, gym, tiny mini zoo with peacocks and kindergarten. close the playground, I spoke to my parent sitting on a bench with 2 of her 4 children.


“At first there was a bombing. We spent 2 and a half weeks in the basement. It was unbearable, the children were very afraid.” 1 of her daughters got sick. “She had acute mandible inflammation, possibly due to hypothermia. We took her to Symferopol and underwent surgery.”


In Anapa, as she said, her children underwent full medical examinations. “Mayor Anapa helped us. We are grateful for everything.”


I mentioned that according to Western media, she and her household were kidnapped by Russia. She replied that her husband's parents wanted to see their children due to the fact that they were told that children were separated from their parents in Russia.


“His parent called 3 days in a row, asking: “Where are the children?”. We said, “They went to the movies. They have fun and all that.” She said, “Show me the children, they say they took your children.”


Details matter

While conventional media proceed to press the communicative about the "bad Russian kid kidnapper", there is much evidence that Ukraine is guilty of committing precisely what it accuses Russia of. There is besides no evidence of the still-forstood claims of "20,000 kidnapped children".


Will the media analyse reports of Ukrainian kid abuse in Turkey? surely not. This would not fit their anti-Russian attitude.


The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are simply the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the RT.


Translated by Google Translator

source:https://www.rt.com/news/630762-russia-Ukraine-abducted-children/

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