June 2025

Disappearing children: how the occupiers are changing the identity of Ukrainian children in boarding schools

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"If a child is placed in an orphanage in the occupied territory or in Russia, it is almost impossible to return him or her. They disappear," said Daria Kasyanova, head of the board of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network, in an interview with The Guardian.

And how can children end up in an orphanage, even if they have parents? Sometimes one of the parents stays in the government-controlled territory, while the other remains in the occupied territory with the...

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Mass Abduction of Ukrainian Children by Russia: Evidence, Scale and the Struggle to Return Home

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Daria Kasyanova, Head of the Board of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and Program Director of the SOS Children's Villages in Ukraine charity organization, confirms the systemic nature of the problem of abduction of Ukrainian children. In an interview with theTrumpet , she said that in April 2022, appeals about children remaining in the occupied territories began to be received.

"And over time, we received new information that some children had been moved...

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