the 3 day event travellers filled the streets of the northern city of fossil, many of them dressed up to reflect the concerns about climate change, artificial intelligence, fake news, and other political if you're up to date. thank you so much for watching. dw, the name is the calls back, said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it's loud. you guys would have being nosy bay, like good everyone to king, to check out the award winning called called the called back the

forth. i'm crying. the nicole, the collab. i see, you'll save you crane. rescue fond. just say of to the occupation of territories to all for your son and hearken region. we recognize that it's a lot of children who are being inductive for, with deported forcibly deported to the garage, or craney, 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. if i'm back home makes me want to cry the when we return

kids, we document the this is for crimes because every child is the witness. oh, for crying the chicks, 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 could not figure it out as it pertains to an issue. we didn't wanted news of going on. some kids the still the new do cheese. we can't get them back because of due to the we don't know what's going to happen to them anymore, but sometimes it's easier for us to seem as they could be any way. 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, picking them up over time. ok. you know, if you 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

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 guardians often are 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. in november 2022, they were ousted by ukrainian forces the to show it for you,

hopefully enough test on the after the liberation because the russians for bombarding it, which i'll research for keith. it's nice here. you can see how such a thing as the sun shining and what's called the buckle. no, but i still want to go home that alone. just let's see us events. guy has 2 daughters. metos lava is 7 years old. okay. of the 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 of harris 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 you want to do to say to me that she still wanted to go or not because it was high school was a little while and 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 him this month cause the issue. what are they said we could fake our parent's signature if they didn't want to sign in a search above, wouldn't want you to enter the book. they said we'd be gone for 10 days. so that is the to, to 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. wait, unless it is, we need to go to the hospital 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 and he still didn't pick up the best thing, but old people to go. so i was shocked. level of choice. we all were switching. who am i should have said, we realized that it had been a trap, thus we stick them and that our situation was hopeless most. let's go to little schools with those or is the 1st time doing business with us on the topic? cheese clock who know senior wrote to me on december the 20th that she wants to come home, which is 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 getting her back was impossible. yeah, quite onto the promotional bullets as the russians then made an offer to sophia and the 600 other young ukrainians and her camp. yes, 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. what, you need a russian one by possible. what can i do? i had no choice. what was that? i have the total with the 5th, so i know it was a little set up to return this few children as possible to that parents wanting to know down to about the i don't not see a left house on on october the 14th and already had a russian post post on the 25th. 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. from there we got on a bus to go. so of course jim nashville 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

address for single and that's quarter bundle each. go to the commercial thomas person that's in the window. the west was being interrogated in 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 to move. it was emotionally exhausting for thought. they asked me where i wanted to go. sure why. the questions were really intimidating chip atanya, 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 tried crimea your ticket, but your call at some of the $3000.00 machine. so what do you mean by you holding for another 3 hours later i reached sophia was get good. 3, the thing and then we went home straight away regardless of here

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 is who i was so happy that he should send you a lie of the russians doing this. right. 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. and the parts of ukraine that came under russian occupation thousands of ukrainian children were brought to what were supposedly vacation caps

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, for your senior. instead, they're taught the russian language, russian culture and history overseas custodial every day begins with the russian national anthem. so that there's a good move if a child refuses to stand up or sing, there denied food or punished you from below to use you. this video with 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,

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. the 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. do you end up not sure, but 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. we were in leningrad region in the village of cousins and 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 and nothing to do to the parents could receive vouchers that 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 i barea become southern military style routine. and still do is compared to daily schedules and trucks. but in terms of foam and structure of the system sets up in the 19 twenty's

hasn't changed. nothing has changed. her son in southern ukraine was occupied by russian forces for almost 9 months. since it's liberation by ukrainian forces, it's continued to come under relentless bombardment. as part of a program, a breast of education, moscow even abducted ukrainian children or from local orphanages not much. i mean, when the war began, there were 52 children between the age of 3 and 18 living here. and that's the federal camp, the dns stuff. i dock is the director of a rehabilitation center for children in harris on the floor with most of the

children's rooms are on the 1st floor. there is a ticket. the 2nd month of this one is for teenagers, zillow boys lived here 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. although the mayor had also heard the rumors before the russians arrived at his orphanage. now, how many of 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 al, end up in russia level. and this, it 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 the kids, some of the some or something like that. yeah. and that's a good thing. we had 17 kids in the homes of staff members, teachers and nurses, and social workers across the whole other story to and to be on the safe side, we invented fake background stories for them. so so was a kid. in the end, 5 teenagers were left to face, giving us, i'm actually, or so. yeah. much that thoughts when the russians arrived on june 4th, but actually they were with me. the russians arrival was filmed in secret. and let me do a bit on the video, you can see the door opening it. the footage came from the center is surveillance. cameras said who the security guard. let's in to f. s b officers and to soldiers.

to mask and arm 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've to show these kids are real patriots. but they want to, when they didn't want to talk to the russian down on us, because all they just said they were fine and didn't need anything because all, 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

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. the steps that are not recorded, 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. 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. and my 2 should you and your soldiers 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 negotiated reports twice. daily. that said, the children were too sick to be transferred and that should hold on a 1000000 lead 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 honey 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 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

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 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 a bunch of couple of ukraine will when. okay, and depending on the 2 boys story began in mario, one month after the war started a shot . this video on march 20th 2022 on the morning after a night of bombardment. which slap on march 20th we sent out from on horse on foot reaching scrum. good at the mongol we passed what used to be a ukrainian check point, but was now a russian one envelope e. and from there we were taken to the hospital, so i'm really the head nurse heard that we were orphans. so essentially, mrs. 1000 all just a minute to sit at 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 in us. and for those 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 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 water is now over for you, your home, and you'll grow up in a caring and safe environment. you'll be in good hands if 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 a sleep media plus both. 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 highschool in just one week's time and promise we'd be in a really nice sort of an inch. might still be deported. change. but we stayed in the hospital and 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 of the summer, yvonne and maxime had their teacher, anton victoria bitch, to think for their return to ukraine. take a seat. 3 months after their arrival in the 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 up, 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 level. but 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. 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 be this for 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. so just what's it for? how much, how it will help me get better at your level that that love encourages russian families to adopt children deported from ukraine. this is the final phase in the program of for us, if occasion coordinated together with bottom improvement. i'm going to do some tests. we've compiled a list of children who already have the required documentation, meaning russian citizenship style. it's one of 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 tutoring signed a 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 man, my beloved mom the international criminal court in the hague accused. maria live over the nova and vladimir, put in a for 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 with co say the kidnapped ukrainian children. what evacuated to as a new, blind of kindness for their own good. why do you know that so nonsense for 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 returning the children in school or from a desktop claims can do some switches with this is nothing evacuation for, according to off it goes, russia adopted 2 to 300 thousands ukrainian children to see what color we have specific evidence of a deep taishan of some $19400.00 children that have not at the foot 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. several said, i write to him regularly, he tells me how he's doing, why i ask how they're treating him. he moved 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 beach 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 fast fashion as an environmental 9, a clothing graveyard, immature land desert. this is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need and lightest textile ways get stranded fashion. watch now on youtube. the we are all set and we are watching to see

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