Inside horror fight to save Ukrainian children in Russia as 1.6m held | World | News

Ukrainian diplomats negotiate the release of Ukrainian soldiers from Russian Pow camps without getting tired, while a Ukrainian NGO, Ukraine, takes their own hands to save Ukrainian children who were illegally held by Russian officials.

And they still have a long way.

According to Myroslava Kharchenko, Ukraine’s legal adviser, 1.6 million Ukrainian children are being estimated in Russian occupied regions of Ukraine or Russia itself.

“But nobody knows the exact number for sure,” he said.

According to Russia’s Children’s Rights Presidential Commissioner Maria Belova, who had an order to be arrested by the International Criminal Court for deporting Ukrainian children to Russia, at least 740,000 Ukrainian children lived in Russia in 2023.

The difference in the figures depends on what the pre -war region was before 2014, when Russia – Russia – Russia’s first invaded Ukraine or included regions that it annexed from Ukraine in 2022.

Some of these Ukrainian children, together with their parents or grandfather and grandfather, not some. While some are in the orphanage, others are studying in Russian paramilitary camps.

To date, while Save Ukraine 855 was under Russian control, but 49 young Ukrainian adults, who were over 18 years of age, returned to Ukraine.

Kharchenko said: “We are constantly looking for them, we set up their identities, we determine their place, using their open source intelligence, we understand who they are and what they are.”

The next step is to contact children who are often more complex than they seem.

He continued: “We watched a group of children from an orphanage in Donetsk, found their contacts on social media and started communicating. But when we talked about Ukraine. When we returned online.

Kharchenko, distance is sometimes a problem, some Ukrainian children were removed from Siberia or islands belonging to Japan in the Far East.

The Russians justified deportation from dangerous war zones like evacuation, but Kharchenko says this argument did not hold water.

He said: “If there was really a release, they would still have to create the lists they received in accordance with the Vienna Convention.”

Instead, while passing through the green corridor wearing the death corridor, the Russian military fire that fired into the evacuation columns witnessed Mariupol.

Most of the information that saved Ukraine from the children itself.

He said: “We are still learning information from what we have saved in Russia.”

For example, officials and parents in the school -cut areas do not take Russian passports or if they register for school, they threaten to put children in the orphanage

Khanchenko said: “And schools are not involved by real teachers. They are only interested in dragging them there to fill their heads with propoganda.”

Therefore, one of the most important tasks of Ukraine – before the rescue operations – is to contact and establish contact with Ukrainian children within the presidency.

He said: “We had a daughter we went back. He was sure that Ukraine did not exist anymore. We returned it to her mother. They say that Ukraine did not want and reject them anymore.

New children from the Russian profession also have a place to find a job for finding a job for themselves and their parents, legal status, psychological counseling, social assistance and medical care.

He said: “We never stop helping them. They can return to us at any time for future help.”

But first, NGO should bring children back home, which are various ways that are most hidden.

And the Russians do not make them easier for them.

Kharchenko remembered a situation when he tried to request a grandson of a grandson from a Russian orphanage, and although he had all the appropriate documents and received DNA tests, the authors said that he should go through the child to adopt the child like a foreign citizen because he was not a Russian citizen.

“This was a trap,” Kharchenko said.

Therefore, Save Ukraine sometimes uses more direct recovery methods.

He said: “We are planning the rescue operation and we consider everything – position, documents and not missing – and sometimes we receive military assistance.”

Save Ukraine employs paid personnel, volunteer and even the people they have saved before.

He said: “We have stock and rehabilitated the child, and then we give them a job.”

Support is mostly coming from abroad.

He said: “Mostly foreign – special and public donors. There is a little ukraine, including our government.”

Khanchenko himself saved Ukraine since the beginning of the war in 2014.

When asked if he is in the end, “Yes, absolutely.”