Bipartisan US congressional body, the Helsinki Commission, expresses alarm about the Kremlin’s plan to transfer 50,000 Ukrainian children to Russia.
From: Kyiv Post by Alex Raufoglu
Bipartisan leaders of the US Congressional body known as the Helsinki Commission, on Tuesday, expressed alarm about Russian officials’ announcements that the Kremlin would transfer 50,000 Ukrainian children from the Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine to camps or Russian schools for “summer vacation.”
“This would mark a concerning escalation in Russia’s campaign to abduct and Russify Ukrainian children,” said Commission leaders Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), as well as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) in a joint statement.
Last month, the Ukrainian National Resistance Center announced on Telegram that the Kremlin was preparing a new wave of deportation of 50,000 Ukrainian children from the occupied Donetsk region to Russia under the pretense of offering them a “vacation.”
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