Ukrainian mothers have opened up about their efforts to bring back their children from Russian captivity after they had been taken away under the guise of trips.
Kidnapped Ukrainian children are being sent to Russian “re-education” camps — where they are kept in prison-like conditions, forced to watch Russian propaganda, beaten and subjected to sexual violence, according to parents and activists.
Herasymchuk suspects a few hundred thousand kids have been ripped away from their families as part of the Kremlin’s “Russification campaign.” Like Vitaliy, Lilya was also transferred to another camp at the end of the two weeks, and then another, the mom told The Sunday Times. “Anastasia was desperate to go and see the sea,” she said. “Besides, they didn’t really give us a choice or time to think.”
“One day they told us we would be shown a ‘cool movie,’” the girl recounted. “It turned out to be a Russian propaganda film.” Save Ukraine has rescued 164 of them but on their last mission, their driver in Belarus was arrested, The Sunday Times reported. Lvova-Belova herself has publicly bragged about adopting a boy from the city of Mariupol, which was seized by Russian forces last year following a bloody months-long siege.
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