Here-s who really weaponizes children in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Here-s who really weaponizes children in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

As accusations of abductions resurface, it’s clear the West doesn’t care about facts on the ground if they contradict the narrative
For the last three years, Ukraine and concerted legacy media campaigns have been screaming that Russia has abducted, or forcibly displaced, thousands of Ukrainian children – even !
The accusations resurged in December, with a UN General Assembly vote on a draft resolution on the return of Ukrainian children.
During the meeting, Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa once again pushed claims that at least 20,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia, in spite of the fact that months prior, during the June Istanbul talks, the Ukrainian side finally provided a list of the children it accuses Russia of abducting: 339 children, surprisingly far fewer than the number alleged for years.
The absence of over 19,500 on the list indeed leads to , mainly: is Ukraine lying again? Recall that in 2022, the accusations by the (now former) Ukrainian ombudswoman, Lyudmila Denisova, about sexual atrocities allegedly committed by Russian soldiers, were revealed to be lies and propaganda. So much so that Denisova was . But before her dismissal, legacy media all backed the lies.
Some recent accusations are that children were being sent to labor camps in Russia – 165 re-education camps where Ukrainian children are militarized and Russified – or even of being sent to North Korea, as Katerina Rashevskaya of the Ukrainian Regional Center for Human Rights told the US Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on December 3.
The footnotes of made by Rashevskaya, instead of a source for the information, say The Regional Human Rights Center can provide information upon request. In other words, her sources are trust me, bro.
Regarding the North Korean camp in question, if two Russian teens were sent there, they’d potentially be made water slides, basketball and volleyball courts, an arcade room, a rock climbing wall, art and performance halls, an archery range, a private beach, and hikes in the mountains.
Regarding the list of 339 children Ukraine says were abducted by Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova , 30 percent of the names on the list could not be verified, as most of those children were never in Russia, are now adults, or have already returned to their families. As for the Ukrainian children who are actually in our country, they are under state care in appropriate institutions. They are safe now; in many cases, their evacuation from combat zones saved their lives. Local children’s rights commissioners are now working to reunite them with their relatives.
Just as legacy media has whitewashed the eight years of Ukraine’s war against Donbass civilians prior to Russia commencing its military operation in 2022, including the Ukrainian shelling which  starting in 2014, media likewise ignore the children Russia says are missing.
During the talks in Istanbul, Zakharova noted, the Russian side presented Ukraine with a list of 20 Russian children who are either currently in Ukraine or relocated from Ukraine to Western Europe, including to countries that endorsed this very statement. Now, the burden falls on these states to provide Russia with a substantive response regarding our 'list of 20.'
Over 500 Ukrainian orphans abused in TürkiyeRecently, Donbass-based journalist Christelle Néant a report published on a pro-Ukrainian website which broke the story of 510 Ukrainian children who had been evacuated by a Ukrainian oligarch in 2022 from Dnepropetrovsk to Türkiye, where the benevolent foundation which brought them there allegedly allowed its staff to beat the children, sexually assault them, and deny them food if they refused to perform on camera to raise funds for their lodging. These are just some of the reported violations of the orphans’ rights.
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