"I just waited to go home," said Dmytro, who spent more than eight months in a Russian children's shelter after crossing the border from Finland at age 13. The Ukrainian boy was reunited with his mother in Kyiv earlier this month
FSB threatened to take an 18-month-old from his mother over a Ukrainian soldier's contact in her phone. The boy was among eight children returned from occupation last week.
Latvia amended its immigration law following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and further tightened it in 2024, perceiving Russia as a security threat.
Ukrainian children deported to Russia learn to throw grenades and operate drones at 39 facilities, while 130 others force pro-Russian programs, Yale University study reveals.
"Every kidnapped Ukrainian child must be returned," European Commission President declared while announcing an international summit to address tens of thousands of missing Ukrainian minors.
Poland expelled 15 Ukrainian citizens and banned them from re-entering the country for five to ten years following convictions for theft, robbery, drug possession.
The Dutch House of Representatives declared the Soviet Union's 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars constituted genocide, joining six other nations in formally recognizing Stalin's forced removal of over 190,000 people from the peninsula.
Yale researchers' database documenting Russia's systematic deportation of Ukrainian children will be transferred to international authorities as Trump administration terminates nearly all foreign aid programs.
Russian forces deport 12 Ukrainian war orphans from occupied Khartsyzsk to Moscow for propaganda activities and placement with Russian families, continuing systematic cultural erasure campaign.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on G20 nations to take action for the return of one thousand Ukrainian children each abducted by Russia during the conflict.
UK Intelligence's latest update indicates that Russia's recent tax hikes are likely aimed at financing expanding financial obligations, including the war in Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian authorities, nearly 20,000 children have been forcibly taken to Russia from occupied territories since 2022 and only 389 were returned back home.