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Ukrainians struggle to find and reclaim children taken by Russia

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I do appreciate that this is a war and both sides are able to disseminate propaganda, but from over here in Europe, some of the stories we hear about the things that the Russians are doing does not leave me with any confidence that the war can end without the complete dissolution of one side or other.

The Russian people could impede or stop this if they were to seriously protest and rise up. Might even save face for the coming years. Save that, they all look complicit. Guilty.

Why do you think reporting about the war is awarded with a one way ticket to Gulag right now?

Putin controls all media, that's why most Russians still belive they have been attacked by NATO and nazis and are only defending themselves.

Do we know truly that 'most' Russians believe this? We understand that it is the only narrative that they are allowed to hear via media, but it seems that there were many who did not believe it in the beginning, and many who still don't though they are forbidden from voicing that. Interesting to know for sure how it goes over there..

Following this logic, all Americans who didn't protest it are guilty of the millions of civilian deaths caused in countries like Vietnam and Iraq.

Indeed, we are complicit. Something to reflect on.

But importantly US politicians are historically responsive to the voters. Presidents can’t hold office past two terms. It’s not perfect, but it’s sure better.

It didn't stop the Iraq war from happening after the disaster the US caused in Vietnam. How is that better? The US has been at war for the large majority of the past 200 years, that either proves that their system is doomed or that Americans love war and bullying the rest of the world. Pick one (or both).

As the Russians/ Iranians don't have a problem bombing civilians how about dissolving them? The Ukranians, according to the best info i can find, have avoided doing such (as far as possible), and have equally been restricted from attacking Russia itself.

Purely for this reason alone - don't bomb children! - the Russians should be held severely accountable, and those guilty prosecuted accordingly, and with an appropriate level of legal - and military - violence.

The US/NATO bombed literally countless civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Don’t act like the Russians and Iranians are especially evil. This is the trick war profiteers want you to fall for.

I think your argument comes under 'whataboutism' to start with

This war is caused by an invasion of Ukraine by Russia and nothing else. Neither the US nor NATO are fighting in this war, it is solely Russian troops invading Ukraine, Russian aircraft bombing Ukraine, and Russian missiles targeting Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting back within their own border and although they are being provided with support and weaponry by several NATO and non-NATO countries, I think they have not targeted anything other than Russian troops within their country, and Russian military who were attacking them. There are no troops from any other country fighting in Ukraine with the Ukrainians.

This article is about Russia taking children from occupied territories and relocating them into Russia and making them into Russian citizens. It was evil when China did it in Tibet for the last 50 years, and it is evil when Russia is doing it Ukraine now.

What's is happening in Mexico-US border is never hidden from the world, where children seperated from their families for no reason and taken as servants is the greatest shame to humanity.

> The US/NATO bombed literally countless civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Don’t act like the Russians and Iranians are especially evil. This is the trick war profiteers want you to fall for.

Never heard of US/NATO raping children and random civilians during war and the soldiers getting away with it/it being encouraged. US/NATO may do terrible things during war, but that doesn't mean they are anywhere near as bad as Russia.

I don’t see how it ends without genocide of one form or another. Whoever wins is going to kill a bunch (more) people.

Absolute nonsense. If Ukraine wins they will end the war, join nato, and tel Russia to suck it. Attacking further would lose all western support.

The hatred that has been created in this war won't disappear any time soon.

NATO integration of Ukraine and placement of nuclear weapons will be the only thing that deters the new USSR.

> NATO integration of Ukraine and placement of nuclear weapons will be the only thing that deters the new USSR.

Indeed. It will deter all further human life on the planet in fact.

If that's Russia then that should happen. It's too big to have any use on this planet.

I hope there are efforts for the Ukrainian government to sequence the DNA of families missing children, digitizing those records, and storing them redundantly and durably to maximize the chance of locating and reuniting these children with their families in the future.

If now the Russias evacuated those children, from regions being shelled by the Ukrainian government, it would be similar as children from other parts of the country, being bombed by Russia, were evacuated to UK, France, etc...

The fleeing Ukrainian children being exploited, and the misguided attempts to adopt babies from Ukraine https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/fleeing-ukrainian-childr...

Help rehome Ukraine's 100,000 orphans living in constant fear https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/help-rehome-ukrai...

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