NEW: Video posted online by Russian parliamentarian Igor Kastyukevich shows Russian officials removing infants from a Kherson children’s home in late October. Dozens of children were taken to “safety,” he said.
by Russia’s war, has borne the brunt of international scrutiny. In many ways, she has become the face of a new type of alleged war crime.
Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, transporting orphans from the Donetsk People's Republic in Sept. 2022.She did not respond to a request to visit the children in Crimea, but did tell NBC News that her office was actively looking for their relatives in Ukraine. The children would not be put in foster care or up for adoption until that search had been exhausted, she says.
“further commission of crimes” — Kuleba said reuniting children with families had become even more challenging.Lyudmyla Afanasieva is a former staff member of the Kherson orphanage and cared for the children while they were in the basement of a church whose pastor had sheltered them during heavy fighting.
“They moved them farther, most likely. So we are still looking for them,” said Daria Herasymchuk, Ukraine's Commissioner for Children's Rights. “But we know exactly who we are looking for. We know the names of these children.”“If we are speaking about little ones who, in a year, can forget about where they are from, what their names are … it will be very difficult to return these children, but we will fight for every one of them,” Herasymchuk said.
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