During the Russian-Ukrainian War, Russia kidnapped over 19,000 Ukrainian children. Stealing children from their homeland is simply a vile and barbarous act – wrote Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of U.S. president Donald Trump on the X platform.
Graham recalled that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion Russia has abducted over 19,000 Ukrainian children. He thus announced the submission of a draft law recognising Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism. He stressed that specified a decision would make cooperation with Moscow become radioactive for many countries and companies.
Since 2022 Ukraine has raised in talks with Washington the question of recognizing Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism. specified a step could lead to the global isolation of Moscow and force additional restrictions on the US against the countries cooperating with the Kremlin.
The administration of erstwhile president Joe Biden rejected these proposals, arguing that they could limit the US's commitment to Russia and hinder any diplomatic effort to end the war in Ukraine.
Rusification of Ukrainian children
According to estimates by the authorities in Kiev, Russia deported or forcedly displaced any 20,000 Ukrainian children, who are then undergoing the rusification process. Ukrainian kid rights spokeswoman Daria Herasymczuk in a conversation with PAP stressed that these actions are part of a planned genocide policy: children are killed, sexually abused, kidnapped, adopted and deprived of Ukrainian citizenship.
Russian authorities admit that since the invasion began in February 2022 accepted over 700,000 Ukrainian children. It is mainly attended by children of children's homes and war orphans, but besides children taken from parents detained by the Russian business authorities.
In March 2023, the Hague global Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Vladimir Putin, stating that there were reasonable grounds for judging him for being liable for war crimes involving unlawful deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia. At the same time, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian kid rights spokesperson Maria Lwowa-Below, accused of the same acts.
Letter from Melania Trump
On Saturday the Fox News station published the full text of the letter of the First woman of the United States of Melania Trump to Vladimir Putin, in which it calls for the protection of children. American first woman in the letter advocates A planet of dignity for allwhere everyone can wake up in peace and their future is protected, emphasizing that the innocence of children remains superior to borders, governments and ideologies.
Earlier on Saturday, the agency Reuters reported that the U.S. President's wife had sent Putin a letter concerning the situation of Ukrainian children illegally transported to Russia. According to Fox News, president Putin immediately read the letter that Donald Trump handed him, and the station describes the paper by Melania Trump as peace letter.
