Why is nobody talking about the nearly 20,000 abducted Ukrainian children?

By Steven Moore and Colby Barrett - Posted at The Christian Post:

Published April 4, 2025

Russia has abducted more than 19,546 Ukrainian children during its invasion of Ukraine. Some of those children have been forcibly adopted into Russia; others languish in a series of 43 camps spread across Russia and Russian-occupied territory. The majority of those camps are focused on “re-education,” military training, or both.

For us, these stories aren’t abstractions. In the course of shooting our upcoming documentary “A Faith Under Siege: Russia’s Hidden War on Ukraine’s Christians,” we’ve met these survivors and victims in person. We interviewed Rostyslav, a Ukrainian orphan boy that escaped from a Russian military camp, where he was kept in solitary confinement. We also met Nadiia, a mother who had a gun held to her head in front of her children while members of the Russian Guard tortured her husband in the next room. With a tip-off from her pastor, the family escaped from Russian-occupied Ukraine just days before her oldest child was set to be taken from them and sent to one of these Russian-controlled indoctrination facilities. Her story is here.

Wars rarely spare children, and Russia’s is no different. In the course of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has so far killed 669 children and injured 1,854, with an average of 16 additional child casualties added to that tally every week. Child casualty rates have risen as the war drags on because Russia targets residential areas with missiles and Iranian "Shahed" drones, an effort that ramped up after President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election.

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• ERLC, others urge return of abducted Ukrainian children before peace talks | Baptist Press