Kyiv slams ‘kidnappings’ as Russians foster Ukrainian kids FMTNews FMTWorld
KYIV: At their home in the middle of Siberia, Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov and his wife Yekaterina are the new foster parents of five children from Moscow-occupied eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky last week referred to “kidnapping, forced adoption and re-education of Ukrainian children committed by Russia”, calling this “a war crime and a crime against humanity”.“I didn’t steal anyone. And they don’t think they were stolen,” Vinogradov, a 41-year-old Protestant minister, told AFP.
The couple are now fostering five Ukrainian half-siblings – four girls and a boy aged three to 12, who arrived from Moscow six months ago.AFP saw the children cheerfully sledging together, clearing snow around the couple’s large house and helping prepare a meal. Vinogradov said the children were learning to live in a family and still needed reassurance that “this is their home”.
“Returning children who were illegally taken by Russian forces should be an international priority,” said Bill Van Esveld, HRW associate director for children’s rights. Gerasymchuk told AFP that of the 16,000 children deported to Russia about which Ukraine has full information, only 138 come from such institutions.“It would be wrong to say that only orphaned children are being taken to Russia,” she said.These included separating children from parents during border “filtration”, taking them directly from family homes and sending them to Russian resorts for “recuperation”.
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