From the Telegraph / Yahoo!News:
"Stolen Ukrainian children put up for adoption on websites funded by Putin
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."
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If you know about the Lebensborn Program, this news will sound eerily familiar.
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