Moscow has repeatedly denied forcibly taking Ukrainian children across the border.
Some 400 Ukrainian children have returned from Russia, out of the estimated 20,000 believed to have been taken by force.
The boys and four other Ukrainian children told their stories in The Hague, where the campaign ‘Bring Kids Back UA’ was launched this week by Netherlands-based NGO Orphans Feeding Foundation with the backing of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Ivan said: “We didn’t want to go there, but we didn’t have a choice. We were fed four times a week. We spent time in our rooms and played on our phones. They let us go outside for one hour a day, and not every day. There was nothing for us to do.”
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant in March against Russian president Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. “It’s important to tell the world that the Russians are really stealing our children. We need to bring them back as quickly as possible,” said Maksym after meeting Dutch foreign minister Hanke Bruins Slot, who vowed to raise the issue internationally.
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