Russia is quietly expelling anyone in occupied Luhansk who didn’t take a Russian passport
Russia deported 570 residents of occupied Luhansk Oblast in 2025 for lacking Russian citizenship, as deportation lists are kept in every "municipality."
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Abducted, renamed, adopted: How Russia systematically erased 20,000 Ukrainian children
A United Nations commission has formally ruled that Russia committed crimes against humanity by deporting Ukrainian children from occupied territories
Ukraine brings 2,000 children home from Russian captivity through Bring Kids Back initiative
Zelenskyy says work continues as tens of thousands remain under Russian control.
Russia’s 36th Brigade takes 50 Ukrainian civilians across the border by force, most of them are men
The Ukrainian military calls it "political provocation," not an operation.
UN General Assembly votes to demand Russia return deported Ukrainian children without conditions
The UN GA overwhelmingly backed a resolution calling for the immediate return of deported Ukrainian children taken by Russia, with 91 countries voting in favor. Ukrainian officials estimate that at least 20,000 children were taken.
Moscow is deliberately driving Ukrainians from their homes, UN investigators find
UN investigators document torture, detentions, and confiscation of property, concluding these acts amount to inhuman treatment and war crimes.
“She should be killed”: Ukrainian schoolgirl among 17 children returned from occupied territories
Seventeen children have been returned to Ukraine from occupied territories, the Bring Kids Back UA initiative reports. Among…
13-year-old walked 9km to cross into Russia. What happened next shocked his mother
"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
Eight children returned from occupation: sisters bullied for Ukrainian language, boy hid from Russians
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 expels 841 Russian citizens who failed language tests and security checks
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.
210 Russian facilities identified in systematic “re-education” of Ukrainian children, Yale study reveals
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.
Ursula von der Leyen announces summit on return of Ukrainian children
"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 deports Ukrainian who threatened arson attacks
Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced the deportation of a Ukrainian citizen who posted video threats of arson…
Poland deports 15 Ukrainians citing “threats to public safety”
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.
Kyiv formally recognizes forced resettlement of 700,000 Ukrainians by Moscow and Polish communist authorities as deportation
Decades after Operation Vistula, Kyiv enshrines the truth with legal clarity.
Russia planned Russification of Ukrainian children after swift victory—now, it uses them to pressure Kyiv into concessions
Yale reports Russia has stolen 35,000 Ukrainian kids and forced them to sing the Russian anthem under a threat to their parents.
Netherlands becomes seventh nation to recognize soviet-era Crimean Tatar deportation as genocide
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.
Rubio confirms US halts program tracking 30,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
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.
Russia takes 12 Ukrainian war orphans to Moscow for brainwashing tours
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.
Yale researchers trace 148 stolen Ukrainian orphans in hacked Russian database
The researchers exposed details of Russia's adoption network involving forcibly deported children from occupied territories of Ukraine.