Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN Dpol_un says his country has been 'accused of stealing children, but in fact we are saving children'. Fifteen Ukrainian orphans have told Sky News they were taken to Russia against their will. 📺 Sky 501 / YouTube
Last Christmas, Natalya Lutsyk cooked 15 different dishes - one for every child she saved from the Russians. She spent hours making a feast of their favourite foods, with fruit and a ceremonial kutia for dessert. She is not their mother, but they are her children.
CCTV footage obtained by Sky News in December 2022 shows Russian soldiers entering a different orphanage in Stepanivka, a village outside of Kherson Her partner, Valeriy Vladimirovich, a Ukrainian navy veteran who worked as the orphanage's security guard, refused to leave her side. In December 2022, Sky News obtained and broadcast CCTV footage of Russian soldiers actively searching for children in an orphanage in Kherson, southern Ukraine. CCTV footage obtained by Sky News in December 2022
"A procession of about six cars came and a lot of soldiers got out. They were all armed. Their chief, Ivan, told me to go for the children," says Natalya.At first, she refused."Let's go and ask the children," she said, leading the soldiers to the basement shelter where they had been living for the past five months.
Armed soldiers followed them to their destination, riding in the back of trucks, cradling their guns. Natalya wasn't allowed to ride with the children; instead, she and Valeriy travelled behind in convoy. "I thought they would punish me and throw us out somewhere." They threw their possessions into rubbish bags and pillowcases. Natalya had no time to get dressed properly and was still wearing Valeriy's trainers when she got on the bus. "Can you imagine the state of me?" she says."We were shocked, nobody expected it."
"Valeriy and I cried the whole way," says Natalya."It was scary to say the word 'Russia' to the children, to tell them they were being taken to the country that took everything from us.Natalya and her children are not the only ones who have been taken from their homeland. Social media images show children handling weapons at a camp where Ukrainian children have been taken
Most of it is on public platforms, and much of it is used for propaganda purposes within Russia. Children are being used as ammunition in an information war. To protect the children involved, and in line with advice from local charities and the United Nations, we have chosen not to show their faces.Illustrations: Eve Lloyd KnightBefore the war, Alina*, 12, who suffers from a severe physical condition and learning difficulties, was a happy child in her orphanage in Ukraine.
Sky News has independently verified 10 camps, boarding schools or orphanages in Russia and Russia-occupied Crimea where Ukrainian children have reportedly been sent from their homeland. Nine children were sent from Donetsk to an orphanage in Russia's Lipetsk region last October. The school's social media posts depict a patriotic education programme including a visit from Russian cadets during which children could handle weapons.
At another camp near the capital, there is evidence Ukrainian teenagers took part in, what Moscow has called,"socio-psychological rehabilitation" and were taught about Russian culture. At Orlovchanka Children's Sanatorium, around 140 miles from the Russian border, children from occupied areas of Ukraine and their parents were briefed by a Russian government official on the"criminal liability of minors" and the"improper execution of parental duties".
In an orphanage 1,000 miles into Russia, children drew pictures showing the"protection of the Motherland". The Russians have tried to justify the alleged mass deportation of minors, saying that Ukrainian children are being saved from a war zone. They claim the regions the children have been taken from are now part of Russia, after annexations the rest of the world does not recognise.
War crimes investigators say Russia's alleged trafficking of children adds up to genocide and its claims do not stand up to scrutiny. We handed the evidence we collected to British lawyer and international criminal rights investigator, Wayne Jordash KC. Based in Kyiv, he is a managing partner of Global Rights Compliance - an international law firm and foundation that supports the war crimes investigation of Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General.
It took them hours to reach their destination. They endured an anxious wait as their documents were checked and re-checked by border officials. Then the nod came. They were free."We looked around and saw the mountains but we still had this uneasy feeling inside," says Ledi.If Natalya hadn't acted the children would have been lost to her forever. They were just days away from being sent deeper into the far east of Russia and handed off to waiting families.
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