Russia weaponizes Ukrainian children in occupied territories. Ukraine singles out those responsible
At a competition in May, children practiced handling explosives and piloting drones across Russian-occupied Ukraine, according to HUR.
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A 12-year-old dies in occupied Kherson Oblast where no hospital or ambulance is left, Ukrainian official says
The official says the nearest hospital in the town where the child died is 60 km away. Russian authorities have sent no aid to the city for over a year
Russia’s education minister calls it “objective.” A new textbook teaches Ukrainian children that their occupied region is historically Russian
Two new textbooks, compulsory from 1 September for grades 5–7, recast Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson Oblasts as Russian soil.
Ukraine registered nearly 69,000 new Russian war crimes over the past year—with only 97 convictions so far
The tally comes from the country's chief prosecutor, who marked one year in office by posting the full scorecard and calling his own results "not enough."
While Russia held its 9 May parade, Warsaw activists placed crosses and photos of killed Ukrainian children outside Russian Embassy
"We want to remind the whole world that Russia is a terrorist state waging a genocidal war in Ukraine, committing war crimes, and must be held accountable for this," said Euromaidan-Warsaw leader Natalia Panchenko.
40 children narrowly escape Russian drone strike on bus near Dnipro: six wounded include a child and a pregnant woman
Russia's attacks across Ukraine killed at least eight civilians and injured 90 people. 26 were injured over the past day in Kherson Oblast alone.
Mikhail Piotrovsky runs Russia’s Hermitage Museum. EU just sanctioned him for legitimizing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine
Russia steals children. Russia steals history.
Europol tracked 45 children Russia deported all the way to the military units that moved them — and passed the evidence to Kyiv
The intelligence package covers routes, perpetrators, Russian military units, and destination facilities, forming part of Europol's broader support for Ukraine's investigations into Russia's forcible displacement of thousands of children.
Bullied for speaking Ukrainian, taken to camps, threatened with conscription: 19 children evacuated from Russian occupation
Bring Kids Back UA describe what the children endured before reaching safety – and how many more remain behind.
Children informing on parents, teachers beaten, collaborators later jailed — researcher details Russia’s occupation playbook
The Russification plan for occupied Crimea was copied for captured parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, but was met with unexpected resistance, and took three and a half years instead of the nine months Russia anticipated.
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.
Another group of Ukrainian children freed from Russian deportation, propaganda and abuse
Among those returned: a 10-year-old bullied for speaking Ukrainian, children orphaned by medical neglect, and a teenager tortured over family ties to Ukraine's military.
Kharkiv digs in: Over 40 underground schools being built as Russia keeps bombing
Builders are working in shifts and often in blackout conditions to complete dozens of underground schools, with some expected to open by year’s end.
Russia sees deported Ukrainian children as bargaining chips with Washington – ISW
Russia returns 7 Ukrainian children to boost US ties while holding 19,500 more.
Names and addresses of 300 abducted children to be on the desks of all leaders – Zelenskyy
Thousands of children have been forcibly taken by Russia since 2022 in what Kyiv and international observers classify as war crime.
US senators seek to question Russian ambassador on more than 19,000 abducted Ukrainian children
Russian ambassador calls the invitation a “provocation.”
They were 6 and 4, asleep in their beds—then a Russian drone came for them, their parents, and their unborn twin siblings
Rescuers pulled the bodies of two boys, along with their parents, from the ruins in Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast.
Not just deported: Moscow turns Ukrainian children into soldiers, laborers, and Russians, studies show
From grenade drills to drone assembly, many kids are pressed into the Russian war machine, according to two recent studies.
Russian crypto, banks, and oil trade hit in EU’s proposed 19th sanctions package
The proposal bans Russian LNG, hits 118 vessels, and still needs approval from all member states to take effect.
“Stayed indoors for nearly three years”: Ukraine brings kids home from jaws of occupation — yet 19,546 remain abducted by Russia
Zelenskyy’s humanitarian program reunites the most vulnerable, while Russia continues to steal children for its war machine.