Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began two years ago, nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported to Russia. Of those, only 388 have been returned to their families. - eviltoast

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Researchers say that parents are tortured for information and forced to work in prison camps while their children are sent elsewhere — first to occupied territories like Donetsk and Luhansk, and then to Russia or Belarus.

Entire families have also been forcibly deported, Kyiv says, telling the United Nations in December 2022 that more than 2.5 million Ukrainians of all ages were deported in the initial months of Russia’s invasion.

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