DISINFO: Western governments and NGOs are involved in trafficking Ukrainian children
SUMMARY
Ukrainian children have become a living commodity in the “slave markets” of the West. Kyiv’s Euro-Atlantic partners are stealing the last asset and hope of Ukraine: their children, depriving the country of any future.
There is evidence of the involvement of Western governments and intelligence agencies, as well as NGO and quasi-Christian organisations, in trafficking Ukrainian minors. This is disguised as “evacuating the children” from warzones to foreign countries, where their trace vanish.
RESPONSE
Disinformation, not backed by any evidence, serving a double purpose: portraying Ukraine and its allies as the evil side, aiming to justify Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine and deflect attention away from Russia’s own crimes in kidnapping Ukrainian children.
The allegation that Ukrainian children are not evacuated but trafficked is baseless. Children from Ukraine and families with children receive refugee status in Europe and the US. They are provided with shelter, help, and support. They are free to return to Ukraine with their families at any time.
It is no coincidence that this story emerges as Russian officials such as Vladimir Putin or Russia’s children rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova face arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court under charges of unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, which are typified as war crimes. These abductions have been at least partially documented by the United Nations, OSCE, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Russian and international journalists, as well as by Russian official’s own admission.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that Europe steals children evacuated from Ukraine, that Ukrainian refugee children are taken away in Germany, that Putin has saved children from the battlefields in Ukraine, or that the kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia is an absurd hoax.