Belarus Is Abducting Ukrainian Children in Plain Sight foreignpolicy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from foreignpolicy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Russia is systematically deporting Ukrainian children from the occupied part of Ukraine against their will – which constitutes genocide according to one of the five definitions given in the United Nations' Genocide Convention. Once in Russia, Ukrainian children are held incommunicado, brainwashed with pro-Russian propaganda, and adopted by Russian families – even though they have living relatives in Ukraine who are their legal guardians. Nobody knows for sure how large this "stolen generation" of Ukrainian children is.