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one i'm trying to call a collab. i see your save ukraine rescue font just say of to the occupation of territories to all for your son and how to regions. we recognize that it's a lot of children who are being dr. fluid deported forcibly deported to the garage, or craney, or on the the plan how we can return them to your brain. so who is this for the right here? are you crying to the company? if i'm back home, makes me want to cry. when we return kids, we document this is for crimes because every child is the
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witness. oh, for crying, the check stuck on the tire pressure. i felt very relieved the since they returned 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 kidnapped and figured out. so i proposed
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to an issue we didn't wanted news of going on. some kids the still the new g cheese, we can't get them back because of due to that and we don't know what's going to happen to them. and sometimes it's easier for us to seem as they could be anyway. the name of the 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 to push it to the time. and it gives me 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, you are headed by me rous lava. 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 and the 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 defend the parents or
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guardians often or very little about their child's whereabouts. so can you please thinking that that's why we try to find out more information and then handled the logistical side of bringing that child back up. and so 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. november 2022. they were ousted by ukrainian forces. the are to show it to you quickly enough test on the after the liberation because
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the russians for bombarding it, which i'll research for keith. it's nice here. you can see how such a thing the sun shining. and let's go back to that. i still want to go home that alone. just let's see us events. guy has 2 daughters. the middle slot 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 school 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 that she still wanted to go or not
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because it was high school losing all of them. oh, she's really 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, which is the brief i feel a lot small hearing this month because the issue, what are they said? we could fake our parent's signature. if they didn't want to sign it is to to but who wants you to enter the? but they said we'd be gone for 10 days. so we get into i'm just today on october 14th, 2022. sophia entered schoolmates were taken by the 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 the 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
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a whole 3 days ago. and he still didn't pick up on the best thing that old people to go. so i was shocked. level of choice. we all were switching unless you, they've said we realized that it had been a trap. so thus we stick them and that our situation was hopeless. was good to a little schools with those are is the 1st time doing the thoughts on topic cheesecloth. 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, if i explained it wasn't not easy and stuff. did you make any inquiries to atlanta for a child that guessing 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 and her camp is cuz i know 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. what?
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you need a russian one possible. what can i do? i had no choice. what was that? the total with the 1st saw? no. it was little setup to return this 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 post post on the 25th of how can a possible be issued in just 10 days of so you have to hope to be, you know? yeah, well you tell us of this to you on april, the 9th i headed for keys. whatever. another mother was waiting for me before you called me from there. we got on a bus to will so oh boy jim knoxville and then some volunteers costs to breast in batteries on bed or whatever we do is don't by the time we go to the full
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address we're seeing on that's called a bundle in each go to the new commercial, thomas person, that symbol in the west was being interrogated in batteries and russia. thought i had been the people in 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, the me will show over with you on someone to it to finally, i was able to catch a flight to moscow. you a call came to pick me up and then we tried crimea you had to take, but you call at some of the 3 cause of the machine with dm's in repair. you called in for another 3 hours later i reached sophia wide enough to get through the whole thing and then we went home straight away. regardless of here that i was
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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. not so i was always desperate to come back the other day and was so happy which the hi, this ritual. i was so happy. let me show you a lie of the russians doing this, but at least i guess they want to destroy people with that from a 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 rushing occupation. thousands of ukrainian children were brought to what were supposedly vacation caps?
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the the camps are part of the campaign of total rest of the occasion. davia here to some truck is an advisor on children's rights to the ukraine in president. she says what's happening to ukrainian children in russian camps. it's a form of indoctrination. could you the memo? they're not allowed to say they're ukranian speak, ukrainian or talk about their families for, for your senior. instead, they're taught the russian language, russian culture and history overseas custodial every day begins with the russian national anthem. after that, then they'll get moving as a child refuses to stand up or sing their denied food or punished you falls below gigi. 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 the,
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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. or hello everyone. during camp i 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. if you do end up measures put on a 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
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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 to you with talk with the new parents would send the children on vacation here and pay next and nothing to do to the parents could receive vouchers . well, 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 side, syria 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.
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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 of vacation moscow, even abducted ukrainian children or from local orphanages mean when the war began, there were 52 children between the age of 3 and 18 living here. and that's the federal, kim, holo, dns stuff i dock is the director of a rehabilitation center for children in harris on the most of the children's rooms
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are on the 1st floor. there is a ticket. the 2nd level, this one is for teenagers as the lower boys lived here to offer on this is our tree of joy with photos of the $52.00 children who lived here during the occupation. we woke up, but seeing 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 bowl and this, it doesn't mean with it. clearly as it was in the store, when it became clear that we weren't going to be evacuated and, and we're on our own. yep. i started thinking about how to hide with the kids on
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the some or something like that. yeah, excellent. thank you so much a today we had 17 kids in the homes of staff members, teachers and nurses and social workers across what's happening. but the whole 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 with us. i'm actually honestly damage that thoughts when the russians arrived on june 4th, but actually they were with me. similarly, the russians arrival was filmed in secret and maybe 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 to soldiers to masked and armed
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soldiers demand to be shown around the orphanage. they want to know where the children are or 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. which is because i have to show these kids are real patriots. but the one thing when they didn't want to talk to the russian down on this cause all they just said they were fine and didn't need anything. because all that and they refused to have their photos taken. which of the russians didn't take the teams with them? apparently because they were too few of them. a few kilometers
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away, the russians continued their search and the maternity clinic and the children's hospital peer to the children were saved. thanks to the courage of staff members. the staff that i'm not, we're not these windows, the counsel him to the need for risa april as the whole, the russian shift to 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 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. and then my 2 soldiers
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entered the hospital and then pretending to be doctors. unfortunately, our head physician gave them a warm welcome thing a lot. the the devil who is they told us to hand over a list of the children so they could be evacuated. but we knew what that would mean this minute. so we changed the children's medical records to make them appear sicker than they were funded. they. 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 to company. a limited hold on them is leave one 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
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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 to keep them from being taken to russia, crimea, or even further away that on the screen. it does show both i'm. one of the class strategy was a joint effort given additional and 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 relief. they were gone. we booked
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the 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. mock seem as an orphan, yvonne's mother lost custody of him. the 2 teenagers now live in the north vintage 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 a bunch of couple of ukraine will win. okay,
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and depending on the 2 boys story began in mario, one month after the war started, they shot this video on march 20th 2022. on the morning after a night of bombardment, which slap on march 20th we set out for him on horse on foot, reaching from uh, going up the mongols, we passed what he used to be a ukrainian check point, but was now a russian one envelope. the e, not from there, we were taken to the hospital. so what i'm really a head nurse heard that we were orphan said. so essentially, mrs. 1000 all the time, we get to sit at the end because man hush was now occupied, was a political buffy. 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 in us. and for those of
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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 rescue or 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 showing that we didn't expect that, but now we still haven't been able to recover from mario pub. is that number? kind of half of sleep media plus both i couldn't sleep properly and then he comes
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along promising. all this 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 sort of an inch courted change. but we stayed in the hospital and there's nothing happened in showing you show us. they interrogated us twice because our conversations were suspicious and different. 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 seat once in 3 months after their arrival in the next. 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
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return. but none of them did. philip was in that group to maria live of 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. because this is maria live over below of with the boy. she forcibly adopted to that. and this is her on february 16th 2023. talking to vladimir put visa. i've been visiting hospitals in particular regions, the treating children injured by explosions. you can use, it's shocking to head, but they say they were shocked in the back by ukrainian soldiers, especially in mary u. paul maria live over bill over is russia's presidential commissioner for children's rights, personally appointed by black to mapleton pain. something you're supposed to check with you to do this for you. since the beginning
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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 that love encourages russian families to adopt children deported from ukraine. so this is the final phase and the program of rest of vacation coordinated together with bottom a food. and i'm going to do is we've compiled a list of children who already have the required documentation, meaning russian citizenship time. it's not the ones who want russian richmond driver, 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
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propaganda machine immediately swung into action with documentary is like this one, apparently showing ukrainian children living happy lives after their forced adoption by russians. was my nice, big family, my dad, the man, my beloved mom. the international criminal court in the hague accused. maria live over at the nova and flooded me, putting up a 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 coal said the kidnapped ukrainian children. what if i q a to, to as a noble line of kindness for the right and good? why do you know that it's all nonsense? so for the whole, the decisions made by the russian authorities to make it easier to change children's nationality and adopt them prove that they never had any intention of
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returning the children in school from augusta, queen's condition. so it should prove that this is nothing evacuation for, according to off, it goes russia, abducted $2.00 to $300.00 thousands ukrainian children to see you. because we have specific evidence of the d protection of some $19400.00 children instead of knots at the foot sofa. we finally managed to bring 366 of them back home that she did. they fill up the still lives with the woman who adopted him. maria live of alova, yvonne who survived the assault on mario paul has been in touch with him since that awesome. 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. put in the course. he's staying a beat and it's still probably ukraine and okay, look, as the war continues,
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