How it happens6:44There can be no peace with Russia until Ukrainian children come home, says Advocate
A Ukrainian who was recorded by Russia says says that there can be no peace between the two countries until all of them are at home.
Russia has taken tens of thousands of Ukrainian children In Russia or Russian -occupied areas in the course of the war, which the Ukraine says, means war crimes.
However, it is not clear Call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putinin which she has a limited – and achieved – and already stalled – ceasefire contract.
“We must have stolen children as part of the peace negotiation” How it happens Host Nil Köksla.
“We want, we ask, we ask the world: help Ukraine to bring our children back.”
Since then, Trump has promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to the White House, he would help find the children. But this promise comes when his administration is reduced to a reduced Organization follows your whereabouts.
“Death camp for Ukrainian identity”
The Ukraine estimates Russia have had 19,546 children from Ukraine since its invasion in February 2022, and only 1,243 have been returned home.
Kuuleba suspects that the entire number of missing children in the past decade of the conflict between the two countries could be more than one million.
These children, he says, are violently separated from their families and use orphanage, nursing houses or adopted in Russian families.
Others, he says, are sent to “Re-Education Camps”, in which pro-Russian propaganda is taught them and it is forbidden to speak their mother tongue.
“We call this death camp for the Ukrainian identity,” he said. “It’s like an ethnic cleaning for our children.”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Tuesday during a speech in the UN General Assembly by the “mass development” of the Ukrainian children.
Russia now characterizes the facilities as a “summer camp” and says that it simply tries to evacuate and protect children in need of protection against the war zone.
According to Kuleba, children who spent time in these camps describe their Russian supervisors that their families and countries did not want them, and their only chance of having a successful future is to stay in Russia.
“The main goal of Russia is to transform Ukrainian children in Russians,” he said. “And the second is to convey the Ukraine hate and then transform it into Russian soldiers.”
Financing cuts shorten the efforts to pursue hearing tracking
The problem came on Tuesday during a phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy, According to a press release from the White House.
“President Trump also asked President Zelenskyy about the children who had disappeared during the war in Ukraine, including those who had been kidnapped,” the explanation said. “President Trump promised to work closely with both parties to ensure that these children were brought back home.”
At the same time, the Trump government ended an initiative funded by the government led by the humanitarian research laboratory of Yale University (Yale HRL).
The organization exhibited A devastating report on the camps in December 2024These include film material from the Ukrainian teenagers in Russian camps, which dealt with weapons training.
“It’s really a very sad story,” said Kuleba. “Perhaps the US government will restart this program. We have no idea. When you got this information from the media and it is difficult to believe.”
How it happens6:33NYC wall image exhibitions empty bedroom of the Ukrainian children who were recorded by Russia
A new art installation in New York City aims to draw attention to the emergency of the Ukrainian children who are kidnapped by Russian armed forces during the war. The 30-meter wall picture offers photos of the empty bedroom of children that were recorded. The children, whose rooms are presented, have returned home since then, but estimated 19,000 are still in Russian custody, their empty rooms that have been left behind. The artist Phil Buehler spoke to the host Nil Köksal.
A group of democratic legislators has asked the government to restore the Yale HRL program and to impose sanctions against the punishment of civil servants in Russia and its allies, which are involved in the shift in children.
“Our government offers an essential service that does not have to transfer weapons or money to Ukraine to pursue the noble goal of saving these children,” said Democrats, which of Greg Landsman, the representative of Ohio, in a letter to Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Finance Minister Scott.
“We have to resume work immediately to help Ukraine bring these children home.”
The program was part of an effort that began under the former US President Joe Biden to document potential violations of international law and the crimes against humanity by Russia and Russia in Ukraine invasion.
A spokeswoman for EuroJust, European Agency for Criminal Cooperation, said on Tuesday that Washington had been informed that she ended his support for the international center for the persecution of aggression against Ukraine, which, among other things, gained evidence of Putin’s prosecution.
Tammy Bruce, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, said that peace in the region could be pointed out without the program for Trump’s talks with Putin and Zelenskyy.
“The President of the most powerful country in the world and says I will do something here … I think this is a pretty good, clear indication that we can still work on topics and make them can make them happening in a certain structure that exists,” she said.
In the meantime, Kuleba hopes that other allies will fill the gaps left behind by the USA
“We believe that Canada may contribute to other countries and will provide us with more support,” he said.
