Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been kidnapped and taken to Russia.

In August 2025, amid Russia's war against Ukraine, social media posts accused Russia of creating an online catalog of kidnapped Ukrainian children, complete with photos, ages and personality notes, ...

Institute for the Study of War assesses the claims are meant to pressure the West into accepting the Russian demands.

Russia has launched a twisted adoption database where kidnapped Ukrainian children can be sorted by age, eye and color, and number of siblings, according to the NGO seeking to return Kyiv’s stolen ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Februry 2022, Ksenia Koldin was finishing grade 11 in Vovchansk, a city some 70 kilometers from her native Kharkiv. Six months later, with ...

KYIV, Ukraine — A new report by Yale University researchers has uncovered evidence that Russia's extensive network of sites where thousands of Ukrainian children are reeducated is larger than ...

Russia’s abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children could amount to the crime of genocide, according to the special rapporteur for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ...

Vladimir Medinsky added that Russian social workers are now engaged in returning the kids to their families MOSCOW, June 2. /TASS/. Not a single Ukrainian child has been kidnapped during Russia’s ...

Thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia amid the country's ongoing invasion are being forcibly "reeducated" in at least 210 facilities around Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine, according ...