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re: WAR CRIMES: Abducted Ukrainian Children Rescued From Roaches & Rats in Russia
Abducted Ukrainian Children Rescued From Roaches and Rats in Russia....
More than 30 Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials during the war have been reunited with their families, after suffering terrible conditions during captivity including “living with rats and roaches”.
Russia abducted over 19,500 Ukrainian children from occupied territories, Reintegration Ministry says
BBC 10 APR 2023
Dasha Rakk, 13, and her twin sister were among them. Last year they were sent from their home in Kherson, then occupied by Russia, to a summer camp in Crimea, which was seized from Ukraine in 2014.
She clutched her mother as she described the despair they felt when they were told that they would not be going home any time soon.
“When they first told us we will stay longer we all started crying,” she said. “They said we will be adopted, that we will get guardians.”
Dasha was among 31 children reunited with their parents after travelling to Kyiv via Belarus on Friday at the end of a complex rescue mission coordinated by the Save Ukraine charity.
Mothers carrying flowers were waiting on the pavement for the non-descript bus to arrive. Many wept as the doors opened and children piled out. They hugged their young sons and daughters and stroked their hair, seemingly not daring to relax their grip.
The rescue operation crossed four international borders and involved multiple meetings with obstructive Russian officials.
Dasha’s mother, Natalia, said that she had travelled via Poland, Belarus and Moscow to reach her children in occupied Crimea where she signed various documents which secured their places on the rescue mission’s bus back to Ukraine.
She described the joy of rescuing her daughters but also the distress of not being able to bring every abducted child back home to Ukraine.
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