children deported to Russia back home

Seventeen Ukrainian miners returned home last week after spending six months in the Russian zone. These children had been sent there by their parents for summer camp. The Russians had convinced the adults that it was safer and away from the bombardments. But nothing went as planned and they were held against their parents’ advice. “They told us that our parents had let us down, so I called my mother and afterwards she telephoned the director of the camp. (…) He replied, ‘Anyway, you don’t. you’ll never see again'”testifies Vitali, 16 years old.

Vladimir Putin in the sights of the International Criminal Court

A Ukrainian association has managed to recover some of the 16,000 Ukrainian children deported to Russia. This group of 17 children, leaving from Kherson, was in Crimea, annexed by the Russians. As it was impossible to cross the front line to pick them up, a very long journey had to be made via Moscow. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin, accused of being behind the illegal importation of these children and of having attempted to “Russify” them.