{"id":2025734,"date":"2023-09-08T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-seeks-help-to-force-return-of-children-kidnapped-by-russia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:01:41","slug":"ukraine-seeks-help-to-force-return-of-children-kidnapped-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-seeks-help-to-force-return-of-children-kidnapped-by-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine seeks assistance to reclaim children abducted by Russia."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-seeks-help-to-force-return-of-children-kidnapped-by-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025734&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Ukraine Calls for \u200dInternational Pressure to Bring Back Ukrainian Children<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>      \u2062     Ukraine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/belarusian-authorities-raid-homes-and-offices-of-journalists-and-activists\/\" title=\"Belarusian Authorities Raid Homes And Offices Of Journalists And Activists\">human rights commissioner<\/a>\u200c has called for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-50-years-of-lies-and-gaffes\/\" title=\"Joe Biden: 50 Years Of Lies and Gaffes\">international pressure<\/a> on\u200d Moscow to\u200c help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian\u200c children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia \u2064during the war.<br \/>\n  \u200b \u200c\n    <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>    \u2063  Dmytro Lubinets spoke to Reuters in Kyiv days after several minors were reunited with their parents in western Ukraine on\u200d Saturday after a journey home from Russia \u200cand Russian-held areas.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u2063&#8221;When Russia feels \u2063international pressure, that&#8217;s when we can bring more Ukrainian \u200cchildren back,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n\u2062\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Matters had gotten &#8220;easier&#8221; since the\u2064 International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for \u2062Russian president Vladimir Putin in \u200bMarch.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u2063  The ICC has accused Putin and Russia&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova of the war crime of illegally deporting\u2062 hundreds of children from Ukraine.<br \/>\n \u2062\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Moscow, which invaded in February 2022, \u2063has repeatedly denied \u2062its forces have engaged \u200bin war crimes or forcibly\u200d taken Ukrainian children. It has said it transported Ukrainian children to protect them from fighting on\u2062 the ground.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u200b    Ukraine\u200c has repatriated 406 children so far and does not\u2063 know exactly how many \u2064more there are in total\u2062 because it does not have access to Russia or swathes of occupied territory in the south and \u2064east, Lubinets said.<br \/>\n \u200d\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u200d   Kyiv has identified and verified almost 20,000 who \u200chave been taken, he said.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u200c\u2063  The children Ukraine seeks to return include ones \u2062taken from orphanages, those who had parents but were \u200c&#8221;kidnapped&#8221; and taken away, children\u200d who became orphans during \u2063the war, and those who were separated from \u200btheir parents during filtration, he added.<br \/>\n  \u200d\n  <\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Very\u200b Difficult&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>    Svitlana Riabtseva, 39, was among\u200b a group of parents who were reunited with their children on Saturday night in western Ukraine \u200cwhere \u200bthey \u200chad\u200d arrived from Russia via other countries.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    She \u2064said she had put her children, now 10 and 9,\u2064 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-seeks-help-to-force-return-of-children-kidnapped-by-russia\/\" title=\"Ukraine seeks assistance to reclaim children abducted by Russia.\">state \u2063boarding school<\/a> in \u200dKupiansk, a town in the east occupied by the\u2064 Russians at that time. She said she returned five days\u2063 later and found \u200dthe children had been taken away and \u200dbused deep into\u200b Russian-occupied Ukraine.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;I\u2064 panicked, I was hysterical,&#8221; she told Reuters in Kyiv on Wednesday.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Kupiansk was liberated in September in \u2062a Ukrainian\u200d counteroffensive. \u200bChaos followed and there was no\u2063 mobile connection. Riabtseva said she was eventually able to appeal for help from Ukrainian authorities who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-paranoia-is-nothing-new-looking-back-at-1980s-computerphobia\/\" title=\"Reflecting on the 1980s, 'Computerphobia' was the precursor to AI-paranoia.\">brought \u200dback<\/a> the children to Ukrainian territory last weekend.<br \/>\n  \u200d\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u200b &#8220;They\u200c still seem frightened\u200d and they are scared of everything. They don&#8217;t talk about \u2064it\u2063 at\u2063 all.&#8221;\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Reuters could not independently verify the details \u200dof her account.<br \/>\n \u200c\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Lubinets described the process of repatriating\u200c children as &#8220;very difficult.&#8221; \u200dHe said he did not want to disclose the \u2064mechanism so as not to \u200ccompromise \u2064future missions.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    He said Ukraine was partnering with non-governmental \u200bgroups\u200c like Orphans\u2064 Feeding Foundation, a Dutch NGO that is helping coordinate a program launched by\u2062 the\u2062 president&#8217;s office under the slogan &#8220;Bring\u200b Kids Back UA.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u200c\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Lubinets said nine children \u2062were \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">brought back<\/a> to Ukraine last week. Eleven were returned the week \u2064before.\n  <\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Tom Balmforth; editing by Angus MacSwan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s human rights commissioner urges increased global pressure on Moscow to assist Kyiv in repatriating numerous Ukrainian children allegedly abducted to Russia during the conflict. Dmytro Lubinets emphasized this plea to Reuters in Kyiv, following the recent successful reunification of several minors with their families in western Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2025735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}