While Ukrainians face daunting logistical barriers to recover children taken to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree last May making it quick and easy for Russians to adopt Ukrainian children. ukraine
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While Ukrainians face daunting logistical barriers to recover children taken to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree last May making it quick and easy for Russians to adopt Ukrainian children. At a news conference on Oct. 26, Lvova-Belova said that about 2,000 “unaccompanied children” from Ukraine were “evacuated” to Russia, mainly to orphanages and other groups homes, while “350 orphans from Donbas have already been placed in foster families in 16 regions of Russia, but a thousand more children are waiting for new parents.
Human Rights Watch reported on Dec. 12 in a submission to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child that the number of forced illegal transfers of Ukrainians, including children, to Russia “remains unclear.” It called on Russia to halt any further adoptions..In July, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reported that 2,000 Ukrainian children had been removed to Russia despite having families in Ukraine.
“They talked to him about Ukraine and Russia there and told him that Ukraine is bad and Ukrainians are evil,” Lyudmila said. “They forced the children to speak Russian.” To avoid the combat zones, Lyudmila, Oleksandr’s grandmother, traveled from Ukraine via Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia and into Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine to get him back.
When officials blocked their return to their parents, the oldest son, Timofei, 17, said he was “was extremely upset and kind of desperate. When I learned of the decision, I was shocked.” Eleonora Fedorenko, the responsible welfare official in Donetsk, did not respond to a request for comment.Article content
She and other Russian officials claim that any adopted Ukrainian children had no families. But two Ukrainian siblings, Makar and Zakhar, aged 8 and 9, interviewed by state media on a train on their way to meet the Russians adopting them, said they did have a grandmother who had tried to contact them.Article content
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