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one i'm trying to call the collab. i see your save you crane risk you fond. just say of to the occupation of territories to offer here. so on and how can region we recognize that it's a lot of children who are being inductive for, with deported forcibly deported to the garage or train me or on the the plan how we can return them to your train. so who is this for the right here? you crying to the company from back home makes me want to cry. when we return kids, we talked, man,

this is for crimes because every child is the witness. oh, for crying. the chief left russia. i felt very relieved the sense that return to ukraine 2 days ago, liza entered friends, had been staying a few kilometers outside of keys. the exact location cannot be revealed for security reasons. the . their families are still living in the south of the country, not far from the front line project. i'm angry at russia because of all the ukrainian children they could not considered all sorts of things

to an issue. we didn't want it news of gone. and some kids are still that you do cheese, we call and get them back to do to them. we don't know what's going to happen to them. if you would simply just tease you're supposed to see me, they could be any way. the same old thing which could also save ukraine, is a ukrainian n g o working to help bring the ported children back home it as a team of around 100 volunteers the course to the time and to use the might. so this department is responsible for the deported children. we're trying to bring back to ukraine to keep them up over time. ok, you know, if you're headed by miroslav a, she's a lawyer us but just go separate. united is 1st. we get a phone call about a missing child, or we hear about it through social media or are volunteers and then liberated territories into a couple of and they're not the phone that we then look into how the child

disappeared and try to determine their current location to that they know the parents or guardians often know very little about their child's whereabouts. so can you please thinking that that's why we try to find out more information the more and then handled the logistical side of bringing that child back. but that's what the videos work begins as soon as a child disappears the but how do these children become separated from their families? how is russia exploding the chaos of war to a duct young ukrainians? to find out more, we head to the south of the country. russia had occupied part of this region for the best part of the year. in november 2022, they were ousted by ukrainian forces. the show it for you quickly enough test on the after the liberation because the russians for bombarding

it, which i'll research for keith. it's nice here. you have the to sing the sun shining. and so let's go back to that. i still want to go home that alone there. so let's see us evinced uh has 2 daughters to meet us lava is 7 years old because the news sophia, is 15. she agrees to an interview, but doesn't want to show her face on camera. her story began shortly after the invasion, when russian forces captured the city a pass on sophia to go to see a went to a ukrainian school, which in, locally, below, under the patient, it was turned into a russian school. i used a fee of the what do you want to do to take some of that? she still wanted to go well because it was high school using been allowing them.

oh, she believe the teachers offered to take us to a summer camp. at 1st they talked about how cool it would be, cuz i think, but then they insisted that we go to washington debris hotel, a lot small home this month cause the issue. what are they said? we could fake our parent's signature, but they didn't want to sign in. your search above wouldn't want you to enter them, but they said we'd be gone for 10 days. so that is the to, to just today. on october 14th, 2022, sophia enter schoolmates were taken by bus and then boat to a holiday camp in the russian town up in napa. 10 days later they were told they would not be returning to ukraine way unless it is. we need to to this little bit when we call the principal to ask when we'd be coming home, start of it. but he didn't answer the phone on to when we tried again. and again,

put on the for a whole 3 days ago. and he still didn't pick up on the best thing that old people. oh, before i was shocked envelopes like we all were. so unless you, they've said we realized that it had been a trap, sylvester stick, the one that our situation was hopeless was good to a little schools with those are, is the 1st time doing the principal assumptions about topics, choose clock who feels wrote to me on december, the 20th that she wants to come home to the don't. she said, you come and get me now. yeah. if i, if you are sure, i explained it wasn't not easy and stuff. you can make any inquiries to atlanta through child that getting her back was impossible. yeah, quite onto the most of the looks of the russians then made an offer to sophia and the 600 other young ukrainians in her camp is cuz i remember she said the questions about they said if you want to go home, you need a russian passport. since you 14, you don't have a ukrainian one, you need a russian long message, a thing, well,

what can i do? i had no choice. what was that? i'm here, the total with the 1st saw no. it was all set up to return is few children as possible to that parents were going to be, you know, down to about sci fi i left house on, on october the 14th and already had a russian passport on the 25th of how can a possible be issued in just 10 days on the deductible. yeah. yeah. will you call us at this? are you on april, the 9th i headed for keys wherever another mother was waiting for me for you called me from there we got on a bus to go. so of course jim nashville and then some volunteers cost to breast and batteries told them better. but it really, it was don't,

by the time we go to the full address for single and that's quarter bone will need to go to the commercial summit, solution ansible window. the west was being interrogated and batteries and russia and the people of all this trouble. and they questioned me for more than an hour and a hall in the middle of the night. it was emotionally exhausting for thought. they asked me where i wanted to go. sure. why the questions were really intimidating. chip it fine. yeah. let me watch them over with you on some of the way to. finally i was able to catch a flight to moscow. you a call came to pick me up and then we drove crimea yet. but you call it some of the pretty close of the machine. so what do you remember? are you calling from another 3 hours later i reached sofia. what else could, could 3 have been and then we went home straight away the promise of hearing that i was on april 8th,

2023. after 7 months in russia. sophia was re united with her mother. you know, the, i do realize at 1st that i was leading russia right up to the last moment. i didn't think it would happen and couldn't believe i was back in ukraine. no. so i was always desperate to come back the other day and was so happy which a. hi, this, rachel, i was so happy that we should send you a lie of the russians doing this. i guess they want to destroy people with that from the human point of view. i don't understand how you can do these sorts of things. just don't get to go. so events. good family story is a familiar one from the parts of ukraine that came under russian occupation. thousands of ukrainian children were brought to what were supposedly vacation camps

the the camps are part of the campaign of total rest of the occasion. daria, here to some truck is an advisor on children's rights to the ukrainian president. she says what's happening to ukrainian children in russian camps is a form of indoctrination. could you tell them what they're not allowed to say they're ukranian speak ukrainian or talk about their families for 4 years and you instead, they're taught the russian language, russian culture and history overseas custodial every day begins with the russian national anthem. what you to that there's a good movie as a child refuses to stand up or sing. there denied food or punished you from below 2 . usually this video was shot 9 months into the war. it shows young ukrainians from the occupied territories being taken to a rather unusual holiday camp in chechnya. 8 8 the

telephone and the young people here are given a patriotic, spiritual, and moral education. in this camp and crimea, russian president vladimir putin himself gave an address to hundreds of teenagers including young ukrainians from occupied territories. hello everyone during can part tech, which is home for everyone who took part in our great change competition. we're now welcoming young people from all regions of our nation. see if you end up measures put on the vacation camp, such as these are a legacy of the former soviet union. we were able to film one of these camps from a careful distance a historian who wished to remain anonymous due to the harsh repression of critical

voices in russia. explained the idea behind these camps who were in leningrad region in the village of cousins, most in petersburg. the summer camp on the other side of that fence was built in the soviet era. talk with the new parents would send the children on vacation here and pay next to nothing to do to the parents could receive vouchers. it was in order to send the children to these camps. she says there are still more than 3000 camps like this across russia. ukrainian children end up sent as far away as siberia becomes had a military style routine and still do compact the daily schedules in terms of form and structure of the system set up in the 19 twenty's hasn't changed. nothing has changed.

the past on in southern ukraine was occupied by russian forces for almost 9 months since its liberation by ukrainian forces. it's continued to come under relentless bombardment as part of a program of rest, if a cation, moscow, even, abducted ukrainian children, or from local orphanages mean, when the war began, there were $52.00 children between the age of 3 and 18, living here. and that's the federal camp, a holo dns stuff, i doc is the director of a rehabilitation center for children in harris on the most of the children's rooms

are on the 1st floor. there is a ticket. the 2nd month of this one is for teenagers as the lower boys lived here, just actually be on file. now this is our tree of joy with photos of the $52.00 children who lived here during the occupation were local, but same stories about children being deported, spread like wildfire through the occupied areas of de mer had also heard the rumors before the russians arrived at his orphanage shaw icon. if i don't hide the kids or we're not evacuated and then the same thing is going to happen here, will to upload, they'll end up in russia a bonus that doesn't mean looked at lee as it was in the store when it became clear that we weren't going to be evacuated and we're on our own. i started

thinking about how to hide with a kid something or something or something like that. yeah, excellent. thank you so much. i think we had 17 kids in the homes of staff members, teachers and nurses, and social workers across what's happening. but the whole other story to and to be on the safe side, we invented fake background stories for them is also a 2nd. in the end, 5 teenagers were left a couple of messages. i'm actually honestly damage that when the russians arrived on june 4th, but actually they were with me. similar the russians arrival was filmed in secret a little bit more on the video, you can see the door opening it. the footage came from the centers surveillance cameras said who is the security guard? let's in to f. s b officers and 2 soldiers to masked and armed

soldiers demand to be shown around the orphanage. they want to know where the children are. one of the f s b officers is seen checking the orphanages records the but he doesn't find what he's looking for the the, the mirror and the 5 teenagers say nothing of interest because i have to show these kids are real patriots. but the one thing when they didn't want to talk to the russian government, because all they just said they were fine and didn't need anything, because all, and they refused to have their photos taken from the russians didn't take the teams with them, apparently because they were too few of them for a few kilometers away,

the russians continued their search and the maternity clinic and the children's hospital here to the children were saved thanks to the courage of staff members that are not required. if not, these windows counsel him to the need for a risk. april. as the whole, the russian shut the tests from the other side of the stomach messiah land detail and new year's eve. we piled up some bags against the windows. so for. ready this baby was born in the 30th week and had a serious pneumonia. we were caring for the baby. all the maternity clinics were attacked by missiles, every single one of my to should

you and your soldiers entered the hospital and then pretending to be doctors. unfortunately, our head physician gave them a warm welcome. bring out a lot of it, but that was they told us to hand over a list of the children, so they could be evacuated immediately. but we knew what that would mean. so we changed the children's medical records to make them appear sicker than they were on the day. we set up a fake intensive care unit to complete with monitors, electrocardiogram machines and all the other equipment even new issued reports twice. daily. that said, the children were too sick to be transferred or what it's in that you to hold on a 1000000 is waiting for every day at the status of my shift. my colleagues would tell me in the hon, david, that the children in serious condition would too sick to be transferred. if our

boss had stopped by, he'd have seen through it immediately, much of that. fortunately, he didn't come by the boxes. these are the reasons why we put the supposedly sick children, the risk of the entire team for keeping them from being taken to russia. crimea will even further away that on the screen. it does show both i'm one of the class strategy was a joint effort. even though additional no one broke ranks and the russians didn't manage to deport any of the children. eventually, her son was liberated by the ukrainian army because we were so happy to see the russians leave. we were a bit scared at 1st and then just relieved. they were gone, we many

ukrainians risk everything to hide children. and for russia, keeping children in vacation camps was just the 1st step. the rest of vacation program organized by moscow went well beyond that. the even woodkalski and maxine boy managed to escape. they came very close to never seeing ukraine again. mark seem as an orphan. yvonne's mother lost custody of him. the 2 teenagers now live in an orphanage at the 1st slide cuz i don't really like, we don't like this guy, which is why we put this on the door at the. so the violet so that everyone knows what we think by difficult ukraine will win. ok and depend on the 2 boys

story began in mario book, one month after the war started, they shot this video on march 20th 2022 on the morning after a night of bump argument i thought to let you slap on march 20th. we sent out from on who's on foot, reaching this from uh, gwinnett mambo suite past. what used to be a ukranian check point and look, but was now a russian one envelope or e not from there. we weren't taken to the hospital. so what i'm really a head nurse heard that we were orphan said. so essentially, mrs. 1000 all just i'm going to to shut up the end because man hush was now occupied was a political party. they called the social welfare office and don't yet i need those . we need to ask the to the next morning, people arrive to pick us up and get some safety unless any influences of

the boys were subjected to russian propaganda from the day of the rab duction. with a camera running, the pro russian may or claim to be their rescuer, even wearing a medical smocks for greater credibility. what are you listening to the doctors and taking your medicine? yes. then you'll be doing better soon. thank god you got out of there alive. the war is now over for you, your home, and you'll grow up in a caring and safe environment. you'll be in good hands as you can get back to your daily lives, including school. we'll take care of everything. and you can reach me ensure that we didn't expect that we still haven't been able to recover from audio pub, is that number kind of half of sleep media plus all i couldn't sleep properly and

then he comes along promising. all the stuff i'm providing when it's appears, which they said we could go to high school and just one week's time and promise we'd be in a really nice or for an inch quarter change. but we stayed in the hospital competitors and nothing happened in showing you insurance. they interrogated us twice because our conversations were suspicious and took up the never a lot of children from audio post and with us to don't. yeah. it's could been separated from their parents and when their parents no longer had custody. she managed fast as a summer. yvonne and maxime had their teach, or anton victoria bitch, to think for the return to ukraine, the 2nd c. 3 months after their arrival under nets, he picked them up from occupied territory just in time. thank god, they weren't taking the russia. all the other children were promised that they would

return. but none of them did. philip was in that group to maria live of a beloved, adopted him, and even boasted about giving him a phone for his birthday. so heroic god forgive me, but i wish she were dead. this is maria level, but below of with the boy she forcibly adopted to and this is her on february 16th 2023. talking to a vladimir put visa. i've been visiting hospitals in particular regions, the treating children injured by explosions. it's shocking to head, but they say they were shopped in the back by ukrainian soldiers, especially in mary. you po, maria live over bill over as rushes presidential commissioner for children's rights, personally appointed by black to mapleton. that'll explain something to you.

since the beginning of the war, she's made repeated public appearances and occupied areas posing on camera at the bedside of ukrainian children. what's it for? how much, how it will help me get better such a level that the encourages of russian families to adopt children deported from ukraine. so this is the final phase and the program abreast of vacation, coordinated together with vladimir putin. i'm going to do some tests. we've compiled a list of children who already have the required documentation, meaning russian citizenship plan are the ones who want russian, which means that rather administrative rules that we have to respect to tell me which ones you mean and we'll get around them. customers right now, we have to prioritize the children's interest over bureaucracy. 2 months after that conversation, to consigned to decree, making it easier for russian families to adopt ukrainian children. the russian

propaganda machine immediately swung into action with documentaries like this one, apparently showing ukrainian children living happy lives after their forced adoption by russians is my nice big family, my dad and my beloved mom the international criminal court in the hague accused, maria live up and over and flat, it may put enough war crimes and issued arrest warrants for overseeing the abduction and deportation of children. the which i law are so young and the russian meteor, of course, said the kidnapped ukrainian children. what evacuated as a new blanch of kindness for their own good. why do you know that so nonsense for the decisions made by the russian authorities to make it easy to change children's nationality and adopt them prove that they never had any intention of returning the

children in school room adjust the queen's condition. so it should prove that this is not an evacuation for, according to off, it goes russia, abducted $2.00 to $300.00 thousands ukrainian children to the ceo because we have specific evidence of a deep taishan of some 19400 children that have lots of things but so far, we've only managed to bring 366 of them back home that she's that they fill up still lives with the woman who adopted him. maria level of, of alova, yvonne who survived the assault on mario paul has been in touch with him since that awesome. and i write to him regularly. he tells me how he's doing, why i ask how they're treating him. even with them to what he seems to be okay. but he doesn't like that. the woman works for that guy who's in the car. he's staying a beat and it's still probably ukraine and okay. now as the war continues,

ukraine is determined to liberate other areas from occupation. and many believe that children there have also been deported. the people and trucks injured was trying to feed the city center. the straight pieces explain the around the world more than 130000000 people us we ask mine because no one should have to

make up your own mind. dw may 4 mines or the can you send up a beat you filthy do by getting these kinds of messages by the does an every day since october, 7th i didnt way my service david anymore. go to the thank god my parents didn't have to live to see what's happening in this country. it's full facility is a tax and the lights and the anti semitism how it's used in germany, dealing with the hatreds.