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Article by the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Malta Andrey Lopukhov "Children as a bargaining chip"
Representatives of the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors have launched an unprecedented disinformation campaign in international fora, seeking to politicize as much as possible the issue of protecting children, to denigrate Russia, and to make Russians look like savages. The departure of children for vacation and health recovery with the consent of their legal representatives is painted in bright colors as a forced deportation.
When they start shouting so zealously about some violations of children's rights by Russia, a normal person, of any nationality, begins to wonder if there is something else hidden behind this. Of course, one can blindly believe what is being broadcast by the Kiev regime. However, in order to get to the truth, you have to analyze a lot of material from completely different sources, compare the information, and only then will emerge a more terrible picture of what is happening to children in Ukraine. It turns out that those who advocate for children’s rights in Ukraine are acting against their interests! How can this be? At first glance, this is nonsense, something that cannot happen in a democratic country and that contradicts to a common sense! Let’s try to figure it out.
The first thing that immediately caught my eye was the lack of evacuation of children from dangerous zones where military actions were taking place. Just think about it, children were used as a "human shield" for the Ukrainian military and neo-Nazi forces. Is it humane to treat children like that? We do not deny that over time Ukraine began to conduct mandatory evacuation but without the right to choose a side. Those families with children who were heading to the Russian border to escape were overtaken by Ukrainian punishers and mercilessly destroyed as a warning to others.
Ukraine persecutes Russian families and the orphans of Donbass they took under their care, as well as Russian specialists involved in providing humanitarian aid to children in the new regions of Russia, and their families. They receive threats by phone and through social networks. Personal data of families and specialists is posted in the public domain on the Internet. Volunteers and employees of humanitarian projects who assist in the process of reuniting children with their families are persecuted.
With the support of Ukraine, initiatives are being implemented to monitor children using open data. To make sure this does not sound unfounded, I will give an example. In April 2023, a teenage orphan from Mariupol, living in a foster family in Russia, was attacked with phone calls and messages from the territory of Ukraine. He was forced to say that he was placed in a family against his will and that he wanted to return. In response to the boy’s refusal, the attackers began to threaten the lives of his sisters. To save them, the teenager was demanded to return to Ukraine. The provocation was prevented.
There are known cases when the Ukrainian regime put pressure on parents whose children were sent on a short-term vacation to Russia, demanding their speedy return and obliging them to testify against the organizers of the vacation from the Russian side.
Non-profit organizations that operate from the Ukrainian side (such as "Save Ukraine") instead of coordinating their actions on reunification with partners on the Russian side, instruct relatives and create legends for them that make problems for people when crossing the border.
It should not be forgotten that Ukraine has been systematically shelling the territories of Donbass since 2014, and settlements in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation since 2022. As a result, children, among others, suffer.
The worst thing is that Ukraine is trafficking children from Donbass! A French journalist Christelle Nahan conducted her own investigation and found out that minors are taken abroad, where they are used for organs, for pedophiles or become victims of other crimes. A number of Western media outlets (Deutsche Welle, The Guardian) wrote as early as 2022 about the disappearance of Ukrainian children "evacuated" abroad. In April 2022, a group of about 30 Ukrainian children went missing in Spain. That same month, Lithuania launched an investigation into child trafficking in the private Ukrainian orphanage "Perlinka", where 43 children were evacuated to the Baltic country. Most regrettably, the list goes on.
We see that no one in Ukraine intends to seriously investigate the kidnapped Ukrainian children and their vile trafficking because it brings a lot of money. At the same time, the West turns a blind eye to what is happening in Ukraine with the active connivance of the country’s authorities, thereby covering up malicious crimes against children.
At the same time, Ukraine is actively creating fakes, distracting the public with horror stories about Russia and some kind of deportation of children. For instance, it publishes information about allegedly wanted Ukrainian children on the website childrenofwar.gov.ua, while its database appears to be intentionally not updated (relatives sent requests to the website in the first months of the Special Military Operation when for some reasons they lost contact, however, now the children have been found). It seems that the Ukrainian side wants not to help families but rather make Russia look as a "child eater".
On the contrary, Russia saves children. Since the start of the special operation, we have accepted on our territory about 4.8 million residents of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, of which over 700 thousand are children. The overwhelming majority of children arrived to safe regions of Russia together with their parents and close relatives. Those who were left without care were equally provided with safe conditions of stay, meal, care and educational opportunities. Our goal is to save the lives of children, protect childhood, restore their violated rights and legitimate interests.
It is noteworthy that children who returned from Russia to Ukraine are eager to go back. This was even confirmed by the executive director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Aleksandr Pavlichenko on the Ukrainian "Kiev 24" TV channel. What he literally said was: "Some of these children who returned to Ukraine want to go back to Russia because, according to them, they felt better in Russia, there they see more opportunities for self-fulfillment. This is a problem." Think of it and draw your own conclusions.
(Published in the “It-Torċa” newspaper on September 1, 2024)
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