Intentionally divorce with parents: the State Department responded to the deportation of Russian children by Russians

The American official emphasized that minors are taken to the remote nooks of Russia by the United States carefully monitor the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, which Moscow is actively conducting from the very beginning of the war. US Deputy State Department Vedant Pavent stated at a briefing that the Russian authorities deliberately divorce Ukrainian children with their parents, abducts others from orphanages and adopts to Russia.

Pavel mentioned the investigation of AP journalists, which explained how Russian officials were deported by Ukrainian children, lied to them that they were not needed by parents or relatives, used them for propaganda, gave them to Russian families and imposed citizenship.

"Our European Bureau, colleagues from the entire department, including our Embassy in Kiev, were especially moved by AP information about the continuing and deliberate attempts of Russia to steal children from Ukraine and transfer them to the Russian Federation for Adoption. What is extremely disturbed and what we are focused on, ”Pavel said. The State Department emphasized that often children are taken to isolated regions in the Far East.