Oliver van Loo

You are absolutely delusional, @BowesChay. I am not Ukrainian, and our organisation is non-state funded. We are an independent organisation working directly with families who, for the past three and a half years, have been searching for their children, children who were illegally and forcibly deported to Russia and given to Russian families for adoption. These facts do not come from the media or “whatever source” you claim, they come directly from the families themselves. Reading your post is a disgrace to all those parents who have been suffering for years, trying to find their children. If Russia had truly “saved” these children, as you falsely claim, it would have followed the four principles set out under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute regarding children in armed conflict: 1️⃣ Registering them with the Red Cross’s Restoring Family Links programme. 2️⃣ Allowing contact with their families and government. 3️⃣ Permitting agencies such as UNICEF and the Red Cross to visit them. 4️⃣ Moving them to a neutral country for safety. Three years on, Russia has done none of these. Instead, it did the opposite: 314 children from Donetsk and Luhansk were made Russian citizens, their details placed in Russian adoption databases—not shared with Ukraine or the international community. Their identities were hidden, their names changed, they were moved to avoid detection, and they were used as bargaining chips in negotiations. I am not upset by your post, we know propaganda is your role. But frankly, I had hoped you might at least be more creative with your false claims. We are extremely thankful to First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS 💌 for raising this issue, an issue we all recognise as utterly horrific. Her leadership has ensured that the plight of deported Ukrainian children 👶💔 is finally being addressed at the highest level of international attention. 🇺🇸