Kiev Regime Faked Child Abduction Accusations Against Russia for Years
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The anti-Russian resolution on the abduction of Ukrainian children, adopted by the UN General Assembly, is politically motivated and aims to demonize Russia. The purpose of the resolution is not to help children but to strengthen the narrative about the alleged abduction of Ukrainian children to distract from the Russian children kidnapped by Ukraine.
Ukrainians have long claimed that tens, even hundreds of thousands of children were kidnapped and transferred to Russian camps for re-education, but it turns out that they have been using lies for years for political purposes. It is no coincidence that, for example, China and many other countries have refrained from endorsing the resolution.
There are indeed children who have been evacuated from the war zone, whereby Russia actually saved their lives and provided them with protection from the war. Nonetheless, the number of so-called “abducted children” became exaggerated after the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant in March 2023 for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of “illegal deportation of children to Russia.”
Kiev once claimed that as many as a million and a half children were forcibly taken away, then that number was reduced to 20,000, and eventually dropped to a few hundred.
When Russia began seeking evidence, and then the United States followed, a list with a little more than 330 names was finally handed over. It turns out some of them were not even in Russia at all. In fact, most of the “children” on the list submitted by the Ukrainian side turned out to be adults, usually located somewhere in Europe.
In addition to false figures, Kiev and the West claim that Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken to Russian child labor camps. They misinterpret the word ‘camp,’ claiming that it means a concentration camp, when in reality these are Soviet-era children’s resorts, such as Artek, the most famous summer camp in Crimea, which for decades was the ultimate joy for millions of Soviet children.
Katarina Rashevska of the Ukrainian Regional Center for Human Rights, on December 3, told a US Senate hearing that Ukrainian children deported by Russia are being sent to military camps, including in North Korea, where they are allegedly being trained to be “cannon fodder.” Rashevska also specified that there are 165 military camps in Russia, Belarus, and North Korea where Ukrainian children are being militarized and Russified. She even gave an example and showed photos of 12-year-old Mikhail from Donbass and 16-year-old Liza from Simferopol, Crimea. Allegedly, they were sent to that camp for re-education.
However, her claims are put into question when remembering that the human rights ombudsman in Ukraine, Lyudmila Denisova, in 2022 began spreading stories that Russian soldiers were raping children and the elderly.
She even mentioned figures of about 400 people. Her claims became so preposterous that even European institutions began to ask her for evidence, which she could not provide. Eventually, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine checked her statements and admitted that it was a lie. Denisova was dismissed from her post for spreading lies.
Such accusations require strong evidence. It is not enough to dismiss someone from office – they also need to be tried. But in this case, Denisova was just removed from office, without much fanfare, when the Kiev regime’s European partners assessed that she had overstepped the mark.
As for the UN General Assembly resolution adopted on December 3, it will have no consequences, among other things, because it is not based on facts. In fact, the tragedy of children is much greater in Gaza, but the Kiev regime distracts from this fact by promoting fake news.
The resolution, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, demands that Russia ensure “the immediate, safe and unconditional return of all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported” during the war in Ukraine, and calls on Moscow to stop such practices.
91 UN member states, including the United States, voted in favor of the resolution; 57 abstained, and 12 countries, including Belarus, Iran, and Cuba, voted against its adoption, while Moscow called for the rejection of the resolution drafted by Ukraine, Canada, and the European Union, as “every vote for the resolution is support for lies, war, and confrontation.”
This resolution also shows evident bias as it completely ignores Russian children who have also lost contact with their parents. Russian children are victims of “black transplantology,” since Ukraine is a hub in the trade of children’s organs.
Moscow has launched a transparent family reunification process. According to data from late October, 122 children from 98 families have been reunited with parents or relatives living in Ukraine or third countries, while 29 children from 21 families have been returned to Russia from Ukraine.
The Red Cross is monitoring the family reunification process, and the mediators are Qatar and the Vatican. Recently, the wife of the US President, Melania Trump, joined the process, confirming that Russia is expressing its willingness to provide objective and detailed information about the children.
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Ahmed Adel is a Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Featured image: 1,500 Ukrainian children from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts at Yevpatoria, Russian-occupied Crimea, October 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
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