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newsqueek | Zelensk* Issues Bakhmut Retreat Warning, 6 Apr

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"For me, the most important is not to lose our soldiers and of course if there is a moment of even hotter events and the danger we could lose our personnel because of encirclement—of course the corresponding correct decisions will be taken by generals there," Zelensk* said during a news conference in Poland on Wednesday alongside his Polish counterpart.
But while the Ukrainian president's statement suggested that he might consider a retreat should the situation escalate, he also hinted that it's not yet time for withdrawal, declaring that Kyiv's troops are still holding on to Bakhmut and remain inside the city.
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Washington-based think tank The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that "it remains to be seen whether Ukraine's defense of Bakhmut and its efficacy in fixing Russian forces in the area is worth Ukrainian losses," adding that "we will likely be unable to assess this until observing the Ukrainian spring counteroffensive."
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"There is success in some districts of Bakhmut-- we're going forward. Or there's no (success) and we're again leaving for positions," Zelensk* said on Wednesday to describe the situation.

Ukrinform | Ukraine to return all children abducted by Russia - NSDC secretary, 6 Apr

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The Secretary of the Council also called to remember all the Ukrainian children who were killed on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Danilov expressed indignation at the fact that the Kremlin leader, who is responsible for the killing of 500 children in Ukraine, still "has his hand shaken" and talked to over the phone and in person.
US on blocking the webcast of the Russian Arria Formula meeting, A/V (EN), 00:04:45
The official said he was outraged by the speech delivered by the Russian "Commissioner for Children's Rights" Maria Lvova-Belova during an Arria-Formula Meeting of the UN Security Council, convened by the Russian Federation to discuss what they claim was the "evacuation" of Ukrainian children from the war zone.
archived It's very hard to pin down the exact number
As Ukrinform reported earlier, as of March, a total of 19,514 Ukrainian children are considered illegally deported.

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 4 Apr

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Question: Yes, two questions. What about the children kidnapped or just moved in Russia, tomorrow, there will be a Security Council Arria formula on the subject. Today, in Geneva, the Human Rights Council voted a resolution they passed on they ask Russia to give access to these children so that UN and other organization can understand what is the status of this children. So the question is, it's said actually few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I think you respond me that you were investigating... The UN was investigating the situation of these children. So what does Secretary-General at the moment think? Is it they've been kidnapped or...?
Stéphane Dujarric: I would refer you to the most recent updates from the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, which spoke about this. We've expressed our concern and I think it is very important that there'd be clarity on the status of these children, but I think our human rights colleagues and the mission in Ukraine has expressed itself on that.
Question: So the Secretary-General still doesn't have a...?
Dujarric: I would refer you to what... [cross-talk]

by Cat on Thu Apr 6th, 2023 at 03:47:05 PM EST
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Ukranews | Occupiers Took Away More Than 100,000 Children From Donbas For "Treatment" - National Resistance Center, 12 Apr abductions

..."The enemy plans to spend RUB 1.4 billion on the program of "medical examination," which is carried out by brought doctors. After the review, the vast majority of children are ordered "treatment" in the Russian Federation, which parents cannot refuse, BECAUSE then they are threatened with taking away parental rights," the report said.
It is noted that 75,000 children have been "inspected" in the Donetsk Region since the beginning of the year, as a result 39,000 children have been taken to Russia. In the Luhansk Region, 94,000 children were "examined," "pathology was found" in 66,000 of them, after which they were taken to Russia....

by Cat on Thu Apr 13th, 2023 at 03:10:57 PM EST
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euractiv AFP | Russia's forced transfer of Ukraine children 'genocide': Council of Europe, 28 Apr nomeclature

The vote was passed with 87 votes to one against, with one abstention. Linda Hofstad Helleland from EPP, Norway voted against, while Harald Weyel from AfD, Germany, abstained (see the vote of all participants). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk* hailed the resolution as an "important" decision that will help "hold Russia and its leaders to account".
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better dead than red

The deportation of Ukrainian children is one element of "Russia's attempt to erase the identity of our people, to destroy the very essence of the Ukrainian people", he said in his evening address.
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Kyiv said in mid-April that more than 16,000 Ukrainian children had been "abducted" and taken to Russia since the start of the invasion on 24 February last year. It said many of them had been placed in ["]care homes["]. Thursday's resolution at the Council of Europe's parliament said there was "evidence that deported children had faced a process of 'russification' through re-education in Russian language, culture[,] and history".
"These transfers of Ukrainian children were 'clearly being planned and organised in a systematic way' as state policy," said the resolution, with the aim of "annihilating every link to and feature of their Ukrainian identity".
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on the United Nations and the Red Cross to be granted access so they could gather information on the children concerned.

oversight.house.gov | Hearing Wrap Up: ORR Director Fails to Answer Questions About 85,000 Lost Unaccompanied Alien Children, Flawed Vetting of Sponsors, and More, 18 Apr
"Subcommittee members discussed how unprecedented levels of illegal border crossings, incentivized [sic] by the Biden Administration's policies, have overwhelmed the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and endangered migrant children."

cis.org | Did Joe Biden Lose 85,000 Migrant Kids?, 20 Apr
"Two outrages: ORR director doesn't know, and most of the media doesn't seem to care"

archived the Idea of Cash Payments, Florida migrant child detention camp emptying out, Migrant kids separated at border faced abuse in foster homes, Up to 750 European children trapped

by Cat on Sun Apr 30th, 2023 at 04:29:51 PM EST
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