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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Many Ukrainian Children Did 💩💩💩tonne Abduct?
Estimate: 19,546 to 307,000
Here are the top 10 most reliable URLs on Putin and Russias abduction of Ukrainian children:
1. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-issues-arrest-warrant-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
3. https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/putin-still-stealing-ukrainian-children
4. https://globalchildren.georgetown.edu/posts/russia-is-turning-abducted-ukrainian-children-into-soldiers
5. https://hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/apps/sites/#/russian-filtration
6. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/trump-should-insist-on-the-return-of-ukrainian-children-abducted-by-russia
7. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/27/russia-ukrainian-children-abduction-war-crime
8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/10/russia-mh17-court-ruling-ukraine-rights
9. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64967597
10. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/icc-issues-arrest-warrant-putin-over-war-crimes-ukraine-2023-03-17
-And tr💩mp rolled out a red carpet for this ICC-indicted war criminal 💩💩💩💩💩tonne...on American soil (in Alaska) yesterday! Imagine that!
Irish_Dem
(79,417 posts)We know part of Putins income comes from sex and drug trafficking.
JustAnotherGen
(37,476 posts)During WW2.
https://kuryerpolski.us/en/Page/View/rabunek-polskich-dzieci
The kidnapping of children was part of a broader displacement and Germanization initiative the General Eastern Plan. According to the report on German reparations for Poland, about 200,000 Polish children were stolen and Germanized as a result of this action. The Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler himself was behind this action. The SS run by him tried at all costs to increase the German population. This was achieved by the organization Source of Life (German Lebensborn). Lebensborn also carried out the process of adoption by German couples of children kidnapped from the territories occupied by the Third Reich, mainly from Poland, who were classified as "racially valuable."
Thieving the next generation - and elimination of every single child who has not been stolen to 'Red-Educated'.
Irish_Dem
(79,417 posts)Russias population is in serious decline and Putin also wants to destroy the next generation of Ukrainians as well as their culture.
But putin is a pedophile like Epstein and Trump.
And involved in sex and drug trafficking.
So some of those kidnapped were sent to the sex ring network most likely.
Just like we still have not located all the children Trump kidnapped in his first term. Gone to the sex trade I believe.
JustAnotherGen
(37,476 posts)The numbers indicate at least 20K of the stolen children were 're-homed' to Russian families to be brainwashed.
This is why I don't let the Russian people off the hook.
They know. They ALL know. They are all in on it.
No bullshit about Oligarchs and Global Conspiracies.
This goes directly on them.
Irish_Dem
(79,417 posts)We know Putin runs a sex and drug trade. Some of his employees were arrested in Paris last year.
We also know he is a pedophile. And has links to
The Epstein organization.
We know Putin has a sharp eye for prepubescent females. And an eye for young boys.
If he is kidnapping children he will skim off those suitable for the trade he runs.
JustAnotherGen
(37,476 posts)It's their national shame.
And if it turns out they are just killing or brainwashing the kids to turn them against their nationality -
And the sex trafficking is NOT happening -
I don't want to lose my voice to advocate for them.
Irish_Dem
(79,417 posts)Just like the Germans knew what was going on in the death camps. 24/6 smoke with flakes of skin wafting around the towns nearby.
I disagree vehemently.
Some of the kidnapped are being trafficked.
The good looking children.
This is always how it works with large groups of unsupervised children with no parents around.
China, Russia, war torn countries.
It is a fact of life no one wants to face.
More than one person here just does not want to face it.
JustAnotherGen
(37,476 posts)You aren't accusing me of that.
While everyone else posts about, reads, and obsesses over Gaza -
I've been laser focused on Ukraine and Sudan.
Those children matter too.
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/trafficking-of-ukrainian-children-including-for-sexual-and-labour%C2%A0exploitation-risks-in-spotlight
What is the CGUs mandate?
The CGUs activities aim to uphold the rights of the children of Ukraine in all Council of Europe member states, including Ukraine, hosting children of Ukraine who have been evacuated or who have fled Russias war of aggression. They also address the plight of unlawfully deported or forcibly transferred children who have returned to Ukraine or another Council of Europe member state, notably as regards the deep trauma experienced.
They are Russkie bargaining chips:
This is likely the largest child abduction in war since WWIIcomparable to the Germanification of Polish children by the Nazis, he said.
Taking a child from one ethnic or national group and making them part of another ethnic or national group thats a war crime.
Raymond added that the kidnappings serve a political purpose, with the children being used as bargaining chips to influence Ukraines position in negotiations.
1,366 have been returned. That's it.
JustAnotherGen
(37,476 posts)Yale has studied the numbers - until the Krasnov Regime ended the program of study.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220571645