Legislators note the need to return Ukrainian children and call on the Russian Federation to resume negotiations on the establishment of peace in Ukraine.
“[Нелегитимный президент России Владимир] Putin is a war criminal, and under his leadership the Russian military brutally stole and illegally deported tens of thousands of Ukrainian children from their homeland. These atrocities are not isolated cases. They are a direct consequence of the war chosen by Putin. The United States is responsible to condemn these unscrupulous actions of Russia and demand the immediate return of each child that Russia has taken away, ”Mix emphasized.
McColus said that he, as a father, cannot imagine what pain the families of stolen children experience. He considers the actions of the Russian Federation “nothing more than evil.”
“Since the beginning of Putin’s aggressive war, Russia has abducted at least 19.5 thousand Ukrainian children from their homeland, and, according to some estimates, the present number of children reaches 200 thousand. These children were deprived of national identity, adopted in Russian families or taught them to serve the Kremlin soldiers. […] The United States must demonstrate moral leadership, demanding each child’s return to his family in Ukraine before reached a real world [в Украине]”, – is convinced of the Republican.
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For data Russia deported the Ukrainian National Information Bureau of Prisoners of War deported and missing, from the beginning of a full -scale invasion, Russia deported or forcedly moved more than 19 thousand minor Ukrainians. According to the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya, as of February 2025, Ukraine returned a little more than 1 thousand children out of more than 19 thousand, which Russia abducted and deported in the Russian Federation and to temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.
On April 27, 2023, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution in which the deportation of Ukrainian children was called genocide.
On June 2, 2025, Ukraine handed over to Russia in negotiations in Istanbul a list of Ukrainian children whom the Russian Federation should be returned, said the head of the presidential office Andrei Ermak.
