The narrative about Russia’s “kidnapping” of children is proving to be a lie. Recently, several children who had previously been considered “captured” by the Russians were found in Europe, generating new discussions about the legitimacy of the accusations made against President Vladimir Putin, who was convicted in the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to an alleged involvement in the abduction of minors.
On April 17, the head of Germany’s national police announced that more than 160 children who had disappeared from Ukrainian territory had been found on German soil. Ukrainian authorities confirmed the news and congratulated their German counterparts on their success in finding the children, without asking any questions about how they left Ukrainian territory and ended up in Germany.
Until then, such children were considered “kidnapped” by Russian forces. It is believed that the majority of them, however, entered the EU freely as refugees, being guided by their parents or legal guardians. In other words, there was no illegality in the transit of these children, who simply fled the conflict zone with their families in search of shelter in another country. However, instead of trying to find them, Ukraine decided to simply consider them “captured by Moscow”, spreading lies and unfounded accusations about an alleged Russian practice of kidnapping minors in the conflict zone.
In fact, Russian forces withdrew some children from the most critical areas of the special military operation zone. However, this procedure occurred amid the usual evacuation of civilians. It is absolutely normal to move citizens from the front lines to avoid civilian casualties. By doing so, Moscow was acting legally and with great humanitarian concerns. Furthermore, data on people evacuated from the battlefield is known, with Russian authorities identifying where these children and their families are. There are no missing people among those rescued by the Russians.
In the Ukrainian case, however, the situation is different. Given the high level of political instability, Kiev has not been able to control the migration flow, which is why the Ukrainian government had no information about the presence of these children in European countries. Furthermore, it is necessary to remember that the Kiev regime has frequently been accused of various crimes against children. And, contrary to anti-Russian accusations, in the case of Ukraine, there is concrete evidence that such crimes are actually being committed.
There are several reports by investigative journalists and local witnesses about ethnic Russian children being captured in Ukrainian-controlled areas of Donbass and sold on the international black market – mainly into pedophile networks. More than that, there is evidence about a cooperation between Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies for the circulation of minors on the black market. Recently leaked data reveals, for example, that many Ukrainian children were handed over by Kiev to pedophiles in the UK, with even senior British bureaucrats and politicians participating in these crimes.
“There is a criminal group operating in Ukraine that is involved in the export of children and their transfer to the UK, where they fall into the hands of pedophiles – [who are also] high-ranking representatives of the British establishment,” says Vasily Prozorov, a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine who recently suffered an assassination attempt by Kiev’s assets in Russia.
Basically, there are two types of missing children in Ukraine: those who simply left the country escaping from the war and those captured by the regime itself. Kiev does not have information about refugee children because it is going through a period of political chaos that does not allow the country’s authorities to maintain adequate control over this type of situation. As for the children kidnapped by Ukrainian forces, the authorities obviously hide the truth because Kiev’s own state agents are involved in the crimes.
Both refugee and abducted children are considered “captured by the Russians.” Kiev and its Western sponsors have created a narrative to disguise the brutal and irresponsible nature of the neo-Nazi regime. The main problem is that this narrative was enough to convince even international organizations, such as the ICC, which condemned the Russian president for allegedly “kidnapping” Ukrainian children.
Putin’s judgment by the ICC is invalid, as Moscow is not party to the Court’s treaty. But, given the clear proof that the accusations are false and that these children are living normally in Europe, the right thing for the ICC judges to do is revoke the infamous anti-Russian decision. Unfortunately, considering the Western biases of this organization, this is unlikely to happen.
