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FirstPost staff,

Several Ukrainian teenagers, residing in Kherson following its occupation by Russian forces in March 2022, were reportedly compelled by school officials to attend a “camp” in Russian-occupied Crimea.

The Associated Press,

A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a missing 2-year-old girl who was removed from a Ukrainian children’s home and changed her name in Russia. Sergey Mironov, 70, the leader of political party A Just Russia, asserted on social media that the Ukrainian security services and their Western partners concocted a “fake” report to discredit true Russian patriots like himself.

Rebecca Nicholson - The Guardian,

This calm, vivid documentary looks at the thousands of youngsters missing amidst the invasion – and their families’ search. Be warned: the Russian response may cause outrage.

Pjotr Sauer - The Guardian,

Report points to ‘wilful killing, torture, rape and other sexual violence, and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation’

Mattea Bubalo - BBC News,

Russia has agreed to return four Ukrainian children to their families, as part of a deal brokered by Qatar.

Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis, Dmytro Drabyk - POLITICO,

War has destroyed much of the Ukrainian economy. But one key industry — delivering babies via surrogates — continues amid the epic strife.

Claudia Marconi, Júlia Lira,

This article discusses the practices and policies undertaken by Russia in the War in Ukraine regarding the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and suggests some possible meanings of these actions that purposefully make Ukrainian children vulnerable.

Reuters,

Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday.

Washington Post,

Like thousands of families in Ukraine, Andrii Mishchenko and Olha Taranova said goodbye at the border. Andrii headed east towards the front lines. Olha headed west with her 11-year-old daughter and elderly father. Now over a year later, the family deals with the strain of separation, the volatility of settling into a new culture and the fear of the worst that could come of the war.