Children are being resettled in Russian families to destroy Ukrainian identity.
According to the Center for National Resistance, all the children are wards of the Khartsyzsk “social” shelter for those who lost their parents as a result of the Russian invasion. The shelter also houses children who lived on the contact line and lost their homes.
“The program of the stay of Ukrainian children in Muscovy is standard. Boys and girls are attracted to propaganda excursions to places of “glory” of Russia. In addition, the children have a “chance” to live in Russian families. This is done with one main goal for the Kremlin – to assimilate Ukrainians and impose Russian identity on them,” the statement says.
The Kremlin continues to openly deny the right of the Ukrainian nation to exist. One aspect of this policy is attempts to change the self-identification of Ukrainian children.
- The Russian Federation has kidnapped more than 20 thousand Ukrainian children from Ukraine. However, there is a high risk of deportation of another 1.5 million children who remain in the temporarily occupied territories.
- The personal data of those forcibly displaced and deported is changed so that their relatives and the Motherland cannot find and return them.
- There are known facts that Ukrainian orphans taken to the Russian Federation receive inadequate medical care and have indecent living conditions.