Of all the things Russia has done in Ukraine, I think this is one of the worst. They're taking kids away from their families. To remove them from their communities at such a developmentally important age, then trafficking and brainwashing them who knows where is tantamount to genocide.
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it is not tantamount to genocide, it's literally genocide
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group
After all the russification efforts of the 19th century, why break the habit of a lifetime.
i can't do much to help ukraine, but i can say this: fuck russia so hard.
You actually can. They welcome everyone as a soldier.
It's weird. Last time I asked about this people replied with whataboutisms, they went voluntarily, etc.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dmytro Lubinets spoke to Reuters in Kyiv days after several minors were reunited with their parents in western Ukraine on Saturday after a journey home from Russia and Russian-held areas.
Matters had got "easier" since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March.
Moscow, which invaded in February 2022, has repeatedly denied its forces have engaged in war crimes or forcibly taken Ukrainian children.
Ukraine has repatriated 406 children so far and does not know exactly how many more there are in total because it does not have access to Russia or swathes of occupied territory in the south and east, Lubinets said.
Svitlana Riabtseva, 39, was among a group of parents who were reunited with their children on Saturday night in western Ukraine where they had arrived from Russia via other countries.
He said Ukraine was partnering with non-governmental groups like Orphans Feeding Foundation, a Dutch NGO that is helping coordinate a programme launched by the president's office under the slogan "Bring Kids Back UA".
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