Russia uses five scenarios to abduct Ukrainian children

Darya Gerasimchuk, the authorized adviser to the President of Ukraine on children’s rights, said that the Russians use five scenarios for kidnapping Ukrainian children.

Russia has already deported more than 19,000 children, of which only 327 were returned. The Russians are trying to destroy the future of Ukraine, erasing children’s identity and belonging to the Ukrainian nation.

According to Darya Gerasimchuk, the stories of children’s return provided an opportunity to analyze the actions of the occupiers. The Russians already have five scenarios for abducting children.

“The first is that the Russians first kill the parents, then take away and abduct children without parents; the second – the occupiers separate children from their parents during the so-called filtering, detaining the parents for various reasons, often unspecified, and then take the child away. The third scenario is that children are taken directly from their parents or from other relatives, from older brothers and sisters.

The fourth is that the Russians kidnap children from institutions of institutional care, preventing Ukraine from taking these children, not agreeing in any way to humanitarian corridors. And the fifth scenario is probably the most widespread – the Russians first create appropriate conditions in the occupied territories that are unsuitable for children to live in, then offer the parents to allegedly voluntarily give the child to the so-called rehabilitation or rest in Russian camps, and then the child does not return from there.” Darya Gerasimchuk said.

The rescued children say that their mobile phones were taken from them almost immediately, although representatives of the Russian Federation emphasize that they are allegedly doing everything possible to return the children to their parents.

“The Russians are doing everything to prevent the child from reporting his whereabouts and returning to his family. Although the Russian Federation declares in the public space that it is trying with all its might to find the biological family, it certainly does not do it,” says Gerasimchuk.