Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, take part in a signing ceremony at in Kyiv, Ukraine on Aug. 24.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he and Prime Minister Mark Carney will co-host an event during United Nations General Assembly proceedings in New York this month to shine a spotlight on the plight of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

Russia has taken and forcibly deported at least 19,000 Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-occupied territories since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in 2022, according to Ukrainian and international organizations.

In an interview, Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, called

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