On the eve of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, some Ukrainian families sent their children to summer children's camps of the invaders. They did this to protect children from bullets and shells.
As the Russians claimed, it was supposed to be a three-week vacation. This was told to Sky News by two residents of Kazachya Lopan.
Children were not returned to their parents
According to the women, the children were sent to the sea in Russia on August 28. However, these three weeks have already passed, and the invaders who fled from the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not give the babies to their parents. 9-year-old Polina and 13-year-old Karina have not yet returned home. However, it is not known exactly how many other parents were left without children.
According to Sky News, 13 families used the services of “children's rest in camps” offered by the Russians.
It's very difficult because I don't know what to do. We ask everyone to return our child. I don’t know how she feels now … Nobody knew that it would be so difficult to return. We trusted them,” complains the mother of a 9-year-old daughter.
Russia is not without reason accused of forcibly resettling hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians during the war. Moreover, there is no suggestion that the camp was not a deliberate ploy to kidnap children, the foreign publication noted.
Russia takes Ukrainian children out: latest news
- Since the start of a full-scale war Russians take children out of the occupied territories. In Mariupol alone, the occupiers abducted at least half a thousand underage Ukrainians and distributed them to Russian families. As of September 9, it was known that the occupiers had deported 7,420 Ukrainian children to Russia.
- Thus, at the end of August it became known that in the Krasnodar Territory alone, a thousand Ukrainian children were given up for so-called adoption.
- Moreover, according to the American Institute for the Study of War, the occupiers are conducting “psychological testing” on the kidnapped children. So they determine the expediency of placing kids in one or another Russian family.