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Ukraine: The Missing Children

Sarah Rainsford explores allegations of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and meets some of the relatives who have been fighting to get them back.

Russia has been accused of multiple war crimes in Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion. But it was allegations of the illegal deportation of children that led to an international arrest warrant being issued for Vladimir Putin himself. Ukraine says more than 19,000 children have been removed to Russia. Russia maintains that it is evacuating them from danger. The 91热爆's Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford has found new evidence of what is happening to Ukraine's missing children and met some of the relatives fighting to get them back.

18 minutes

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Tue 6 Jun 2023 02:30GMT

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