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That's horrible. Can't imagine what that must be like for the children and their families.
“In recent weeks, we have seen Russia double down on some of its most despicable behavior in Ukraine.  This includes continuing to forcibly remove children from their families and homes in Ukraine and transfer them to Russia.  Over the New Year, Russia reportedly abducted as many as 2,000 children from Ukraine into Russia under the guise of protecting them from the ongoing violence of Russia’s own war,” Michael Carpenter, U.S. Permanent Representative to OSCE, said at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on Friday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
The U.S. diplomat also said that local puppet authorities in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk were already reportedly compiling lists of children to join the war when they come of age.
“Children born in 2005 and 2006 would now already be subject to compulsory military registration.  This advance planning to use Ukraine’s children as cannon fodder for Russia’s war is – I have no other words – it’s just plain evil,” Carpenter stressed.
As reported, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, previously stated that the number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia could total hundreds of thousands. >

My heart aches reading this. >

another bargaining chip for the negotiating table I would suppose  
using these children as blackmail is heinous >

Many won't be found. >

Most, unfortunately 😔 >

People are fucked up. Lots of kidnappings in the news lately. One lady was taken from her home, right from her doorstep not far from me. I don't know what drives this sick shit but we need a solution. >

Really don't think I'm kidnapping material, but getting a tracking chip like my dog have is getting more and more interesting.
Kinda feel like the world lost some bearings. >

That's why I'm fat. Insulation for winter and much harder to kidnap. >

That reminds me of the Fat Princess game. >

Surely this is a war crime? >

Yes, a form of genocide >

Sometimes I wonder how many children there are even left in Ukraine. Overall I think Russia abducted somewhere between 300,000 and half a million children. A lot of children also fled to Western countries with their mothers, about half of the 5.3 million Ukrainian refugees in the EU are children. That means about 3 million fewer children in the country. Before the war there were 7 million children in Ukraine, so that's nearly half. 
That's a particularly insidious side aspect of Putin's genocide. The longer this Russian invasion continues, the more doomed Ukraine's demographic future is. If these children grow up and take root in the EU or in Russia, a significant percentage might opt to stay there after the war. >

Well he wasn't looking to only do short term damage to Ukraine. >

According to the UN kidnapping children is a grave violation and even a war crime..
But really how can anyone defend Russia in this case? >

3 options 
1 - deny everything and ignore any information to the contrary 
2 - say the abducted children are being saved from the "evil, child killing, Nazis" in Ukraine 
3 - both 1 and 2 >

Wonder who they sell them to? >

The same people who traffickers sell them to... >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 42%. (I'm a bot)


The deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is despicable and violates the Geneva Conventions.
"In recent weeks, we have seen Russia double down on some of its most despicable behavior in Ukraine. This includes continuing to forcibly remove children from their families and homes in Ukraine and transfer them to Russia. Over the New Year, Russia reportedly abducted as many as 2,000 children from Ukraine into Russia under the guise of protecting them from the ongoing violence of Russia's own war," Michael Carpenter, U.S. Permanent Representative to OSCE, said at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on Friday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
As reported, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, previously stated that the number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia could total hundreds of thousands.


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Russians: "why are we so frequently portrayed as the baddies in movies and video games?" >

As a (US) child born towards the end of the cold war, and yet old enough to remember and have a grasp on it: My memory is ingrained with hearing the USSR promising to defeat the US from within, and that one way it would do so is by "getting to you through your children".
As a child that frightened me, and I understood then what I understand in great detail now. The soviet union, kgb, and all those incorporated with maintaining similar mindsets are proud to say such things about their motives. It indicated a high level of comfort with acts of callous disregard to life and an eagerness to push an agenda via any means, especially very innocent non-combatants.
I would not be surprised to learn the number of Ukrainian children that have been kidnapped is much higher. Such evil knows no bounds and the world needs to swallow this insanely uncomfortable fact and not only stop it, but proactively stamp it out across the globe. Sick and evil in the worst ways. Our children are the people capable of providing solutions to current suffering, and learning how to grow above it and beyond it. To kidnap, torture, and weaponize a child's mind is making a conscious effort to destroy all aspects of life, it is beyond forgiveness and absolution. >

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