US researchers have identified hundreds of Ukrainian children abducted by occupiers – Zelensky

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Researchers from Yale University have identified hundreds of Ukrainian children from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions who have been abducted by Russia since February 2022, as well as their whereabouts and deportation routes.

148 young Ukrainians are already in Russian child placement databases, 42 of them have been adopted, taken into custody or have an appointed Russian guardian. Another 166 children are placed in Russian families. The report shows the whole world what Russia is going to do to erase Ukrainian identity. How systemic its policy in this direction is, — noted Volodymyr Zelensky.

He recalled that Ukraine is constantly working to ensure that our children return home, and that all those guilty of the terrible crime of kidnapping are punished.

This is a difficult challenge, but we are doing everything necessary, and we are grateful to everyone who helps us. To every country, organization, and leader – political and public. Only together can we restore the justice that Russia violated on such a scale, protect the future of Ukrainian children, and return them home, the President said.