Russia and Ukraine's second round of talks in Istanbul, Turkey, quickly stalled, failing to secure a roadmap to peace. One point of contention: the issue of stolen children.

Ukraine says Russia acknowledged that it had taken hundreds of kids. However, Russia rejects the characterization of the children being forcibly removed.

Media outlets have reported on how Ukraine's kids have become an obscured casualty of war, taken from their homes and forced to forge new lives in a foreign land.

Ksenia Koldin says that's what happened to her and her younger brother. "We were taken to Russia," Koldin told CBN News. "Whether we wanted to go or not, we were just sent there against our will."

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