Stolen Ukrainian children put up for adoption on websites funded by Vladimir Putin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/stolen-ukrainian-children-forced-adoption-russia-putin/

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  1. **From The Telegraph:**

    Stolen Ukrainian children are being put up for adoption in Russia on websites that have received funding from Vladimir Putin, according to a landmark report.

    The study by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab details the Russian president’s direct involvement in the deportation, re-education and forced adoption of hundreds of Ukrainian children.

    It could result in further charges against Putin for war crimes or crimes against humanity, or support a wider case of genocide.

    He has already been hit with an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for lesser charges.

    Yale’s research – which was completed over 20 months of almost three years of war – outlines Russia’s seven-point programme of coerced adoption and fostering.  

    It identified 314 children who have been forcibly placed in the programme since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

    All the children were taken from the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, which have been partially occupied by Russian-backed proxies since 2014.

    They were brought to “midpoint” accommodation centres in Russia, after which they were either placed with a Russian family or in re-education camps before being naturalised as Russian citizens.

    With new Russian identities, often including fake names, back stories, videos and pictures, the children are then placed on state-backed adoption databases.

    These include the Russian department of education’s “State data bank of orphans and children left without parental care”, a website run by the Center for Development of Social Projects, which has in the past received cash from Putin’s office, and the Change One Life database.

    Each of the databases contains profiles that link to the children’s profiles on the other two websites, Yale’s researchers found.

    The websites also allow viewers to select children from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – four Ukrainian regions partially occupied by Russia, which Putin claimed to have annexed in September 2022.

    Of the 314 children uncovered by Yale, 148 were spread across five Russian regions before being placed on the databases.

    The others were directly settled with families across 16 regions of Russia.

    “Direct financial support and other assets from the President’s Office have underwritten and resourced two core logistical components of the program: child placement databases and transportation of children,” the researchers wrote in the report titled “Russia’s systematic program of coerced adoption and fostering of Ukraine’s children”.

    From 2019 to 2024, the Center for Development of Social Projects has received more than 47 million roubles (roughly £355,000) in funding from the Presidential Grants Fund.

    The centre’s database includes pictures of children being put up for adoption in Russia, as well as details on their eye and hair colour, temperament, and their reason for being without parents.

    **Article link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/stolen-ukrainian-children-forced-adoption-russia-putin/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/stolen-ukrainian-children-forced-adoption-russia-putin/)

  3. Putin is going to go down as an evil, psychotic loser. His legacy will be that of a failure who devastated and destroyed his own country, costing hundreds of thousands of lives in the process. All for nothing. 

  5. Isn’t kidnapping children during wartime a war crime ?

  6. The best, that can happen, is for secretly anti-putin and anti-war russians to adopt them until there is a chance to get the children back to their parents.

  12. They would be in “Yunarmiya”, “Seliger” (source of entertainment for Kremlin oligarch pedophiles) and Chechen “patriotic camps” with mandatory Russian “true” version of history sooner than will remember name of their new “parents”

  13. This is a plain, tragic humanitarian crime and genocide happening in front of our eyes. But you know what is more tragic ? The more tragedy is, the biggest, the richest and the strongest democracy in the world will soon be trying to appease this madness. Trump surely will make USA great again…

  14. Can you imagine what he will do to the people
    Of Ukraine?

  15. I’m sure our European leaders will write a letter of concern…

    Surely there must be someone smart enough on this continent of over 700m people that can just take these websites offline permanently.

    What our inept leaders seem to be overlooking with this, brain wash these children over years to love all things Soviet.. send them back home to sculpt the future in Putins image… On top of the fact Russia is stealing children from families.

    I’m sure it’ll be a strong letter.. diplomats will be summoned. Lies will be told.

  16. What an evil, terrorist society Russia is. And to think countries like India and China are fully supportive of this abhorrent nation.

  17. If the Ukrainians are “Nazis” to the Russians, why would Russians want to adopt Ukrainian children?

  18. I love it when Russians are allowed to escalate their heinous activities endlessly and fuck with us nonstop but we have to watch and take it to the chin. If we escalate, we’re the bad guys.

  19. That is a complete disregard for human life. Particularly, those children’s lives. You would think we were better than this, it breaks my heart to see we are not.

  21. Putin needs to be put up for adoption!!! And then someone can spank him until he screams I’ll stop the war, I want my mommy, I do it I’ll be a dom beat the shit out of him?

  22. For those unclear on the subject, this is what genocide looks like.

  24. The nazis did exactly this back in the last war. Took *suitably Aryan* children from the countries they invaded and pawned them off to loyalist families with the intent of making them good little Germans.

  25. I hope the bastards responsible for this end up like Gaddafi.

  26. Donnie Fraud would love to monetize the adoption of immigrant children he separated from parents. There were over 500 of them.

  27. So Putin is not only a murderous war criminal, but also a human trafficker? Got it.

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