Posted on 09/30/2022 4:07:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Russian occupation radio and newspaper ads promoted the camps as a summer break from the war for Ukrainian children under their control, free of charge. Hundreds of families agreed in the occupied east and the south, Ukrainian officials and parents say.
One bus convoy left Izium at the end of August, with the promise that the children would return home in time for the school year. Instead, Ukrainian forces swept though in early September, driving the Russians into a disorganized retreat and liberating territory that had been in enemy hands for months.
Fifty-two children from Izium and around 250 more from other towns in the Kharkiv region, all between the ages of 9 and 16, are now scattered in camps, according to a Ukrainian intelligence official and a mother who hitchhiked into Russia to retrieve her daughter. Both, like nearly everyone involved in the issue, spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive and fraught situation.
“Our main goal was to give the children a break from everything that was happening here, from all the horrors that were here,” said Valeriya Kolesnyk, an Izium teacher whose 9-year-old is now in Russia. “The problem is that the Russian side does not plan to return the children to us.”
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Lots of English kids were sent to the countryside during WWII to avoid the German bombs, including my mother and her sister. Ukraine isn’t safe for kids since there’s a war going on. I’m sure they’ll be returned when it’s over. Calm TF down.
More FR Spam from you. Hope your State Department checks don’t clear.
Still don’t care.
Tired of the, “I support the latest thing!” crapfest, while politicians and their families get rich off of kickbacks from defense contractors, which bills my grandkids for the tab.
While our country falls apart! We have 5 MILLION more illegals who poured across our border unimpeded since FJB was installed!
And Rs like Mitch, who could have stopped it, hide, and continue to make millions more!!!
And idiot Useful Idiots follow the laser pointer like cats on speed.
Ugh.
Hostages.
Yep.
Biden can send them to Martha’s Vineyard and check the reaction; 52 white kids getting off an airplane. Have them change their names to Chad or Todd or Buffy so they can mingle with the natives better.
Kidnapping and raping them. Rape is an age-old tactic of Russians.
MILLIONS of Americans stranded in illegal camps thanks to Biden.
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