Ukrainian children as young as 4 months old are being forcibly taken to Russia. Officials don't know what is happening to them.

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[–]StillLessons 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Funny how themes repeat themselves. When Saddam was the enemy it was the babies in the incubators. Those bad guys sure are bad! Trust us...

[–]hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe keeping them out of the hands of the White Angels?

[–]tjweeks 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Organ harvesting. It sounds too awful to even think of but what else are they really going to do with them? Harvesters or pedophiles. God Bless Those Poor Children.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's how you win conflicts, you stop the future generation of fighters when they're kids. Hopefully they'll just be reeducated to be good little Ruskies.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess no one remembers back in 2017, when the Keiv side's shelling of Eastern Ukrainians caused worldwide concern for the Ukrainian children living where they were the Ukrainian government was bombing, due to access to water from infrastructure destruction.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2017/06/ukraine-750000-children-at-risk-of-losing-access-to-safe-drinking-water-warns-un/

You might remember around that time, there also being concern of Ukraine's bombing of Easter Ukraine's world wide concern for poisoning the whole water table in the area and even a nuclear contamination scare.....also due to Ukraine shelling infrastructure in Eastern Ukraine. This was due to water pumps that must keep active and retired mines from flooding, which would bring poisonous chemicals from the mines to the environment. This includes one Eastern Ukrainian mine, which stores Russia's left over nuclear waste from WW/coldwar era. I remember the whole world was pissed at Ukraine for risking the whole region to kill Russian speaking Ukrainians who rejected the election and both Ukrainian sides breaking multiple peace accords.

You might also remember that this is a re-occurring topic recently, about child being displaced. Back in 2022, when the UN decided to align with the US propaganda and pretend the Ukraine war just started, the UN reported that, "One month of war leaves more than half of Ukraine’s children displaced." https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114592

Yet, some of us still remember that Ukraine has always been a central hub for human trafficking. Here is how USAID puts it:

Ukraine has been a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking since the early 1990s. Men, women, and children are trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and begging and sexual and other forms of exploitation. The main countries of destination for trafficked Ukrainians have been the Russian Federation, Poland, and Turkey, as well as internal human trafficking within Ukraine. The problem has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114592

Yet, some of us remember this problem farther back, maybe not the 1990's, but more of this era:

2016: "Ukraine's Shame: An Epidemic of Human Trafficking" https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-human-traffciking-416319

Ukraine remains one of Europe's most notorious sources of human trafficking.

Since 1991, more than 160,000 men, women and children have been exploited for labor, sex, forced begging and organ removal, according to a mid-2015 report {PDF} from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

I also remember many reports of Eastern Ukrainian children having to walk through mine fields to get to school, set by the Ukrainian government, back in the same 2016/2017 area, lamenting how it would be a hazard for decades to come. Now both sides covered the area with mines and most of Eastern Ukraine is rubble, for the 2nd, 3rd, maybe even dozenth time, as the shelling and fighting has continued for 10+ years.