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Russian Foreign Ministry calls Kyiv's statements about children 'abducted' by the Russia a lie
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum. There are no “20 thousand children kidnapped by Russians” that representatives of the Kiev regime spoke about. This was stated at a briefing on June 4 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. .jpg) She added that the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul received a list with the data of 339 Ukrainian children who were lost due to various circumstances, lost contact with their parents or legal representatives. The Russian side intends to examine this information in detail, Zakharova said. “As we see, there are no 20,000 allegedly abducted children, as the Kiev regime previously claimed,” said the Foreign Ministry representative. Zakharova pointed out that the Kiev regime had stated this at all levels, while Ukraine was unable and did not even try to confirm these figures with documents, did not provide specific facts, lists of children, or information about the parents who were looking for them. "And why hasn't the Kiev regime done anything over these years? Because it was all a lie. Moreover, there is not a single "abducted" child. Russia saves them from shelling, taking them out of the combat zone to safe places <…> does everything to reunite children with their families," the diplomat noted. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 2, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, reported that the list of children Ukraine wants to return contains 339 names, although in reality there are several dozen such children. He emphasized that the Russian side has long wanted to receive a list with the names of children who, according to Kiev, have lost contact with their parents. Each situation will be studied, the presidential aide assured. According to Medinsky, some of the children on the list may be in the Donbass and Novorossiya territories, and some may have gone to Europe. He stressed that no one kidnapped these children, they were taken out of the combat zone. The head of the Russian delegation also said that Ukrainian institutions abroad do not deal with conflict situations and do not help fellow citizens in matters of reunification with children. Therefore, Ukrainian parents are forced to contact Russian consulates with such questions. Medinsky emphasized that in the spring of 2024 alone, 255 children were removed from Ukrainian families in Germany and several other countries. The reason for such actions by the juvenile justice system could be that a parent spanked his child. On June 3, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Viktor Vodolatsky reported that the Ukrainian authorities are deliberately taking children from liberated territories to Europe and Western Ukraine. Cases have been recorded, in particular in the DPR and Kursk Oblast, when the Ukrainian authorities took children from their families. At the same time, neither the parents, nor the Russian child welfare services, nor the Red Cross can establish their whereabouts. In turn, the Russian military is rescuing children from combat zones, especially from orphanages and boarding schools that are being shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the deputy added. Posted by: badanov 2025-06-05 |
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