When the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the mass abduction and forced transfer of Ukrainian children, it was a chilling acknowledgement that Russia’s war in Ukraine is not only about territory or politics. It is about erasing a nation’s identity by targeting its most vulnerable: its children.

According to international investigators, more than 35,000 Ukrainian boys and girls have been stolen from their families, stripped of their names, their language and their heritage, and re-educated to be Russian. Some were taken from state institutions in occupied Ukraine, some from summer “re-education camps,” others after their parents were killed or arrested.

The United Nations has declared these abductions and deportations war crimes. Yale Univ

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