Ukrainian officials have alleged that the Russian military abducted 97 orphans as they withdrew from the Kherson region
The moment Russian forces arrive at an orphanage in Kherson to commit “child molestation” announced the British channel Sky News. The video shows agents of Russia’s secret police, the FSB, leading armored Russian soldiers into the building.
Sky News investigated reports that Russians took children from two orphanages in Kherson. Sky News’ investigation has found evidence to show that these reports are well-founded, but it has also highlighted the extraordinary bravery of some Ukrainian citizens who tried to thwart their efforts.
CCTV footage from Sky News shows that Russia has kidnapped orphans from Ukrainian regions. However, as the report states, in this case Ukrainian citizens managed to stop them and hid the children.
“They seized all the files about the children,” Stepanivka village orphanage director Volodymyr Sahaydak told Sky News, “because they couldn’t figure out where the children were, so they took files, they took computers, they took out the CCTV system because they wanted to know where had the children gone.” added Mr Shahidak and the villagers rescued 52 children from the Russians, but not another 15 orphans.
Natalya Kadyrova, who lives next to the orphanage, described similar images.
“When they took the children out, Russian armored vehicles and soldiers stood around the perimeter so that no one could take video,” he said, adding that the children were toddlers, only three to five years old.
Ukrainian officials complained that the Russian army kidnapped 97 orphans when they withdrew from the region of Chersona.
Ukrainian prosecutors say the Russians took 48 orphans, aged three to five, from the orphanage. The Ukrainian government says a total of 13,000 children have been deported or kidnapped by the Russians during the war.
Child abduction is a serious violation of the rules of war.
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