Explainer: Some Ukrainians speak Russian language — it doesn’t make them Russian

Explainer: Some Ukrainians speak Russian language — it doesn’t make them Russian

Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast, that they made the definitive choice to abandon speaking Russian altogether.“It has become unacceptable to speak the language of the Russians who occupied, killed, and continue to kill our people,” Virlych told the Ky…

They were to become Russians: the Kremlin had thousands of Ukrainian children abducted – the plan was already in the drawer before the war began.

When the Russians’ entry into Olenivka was already imminent, Yevhen Mezhevoy introduced a mobile phone in a sock and told his eldest son not to separate from the apparatus. As he expected, like the rest of the local men, he was arrested, interrogated, tortured and imprisoned. As soon as he set foot on the street again he contacted his children, who had been deported to Russia, along with forty other children from the same locality. Thanks to tha…

Russia Abducting Ukrainian Children to ‘Forcibly Turn Them Into Russians,’ Says Report

Russia has “embarked on a Kremlin-directed, deeply institutionalized project to abduct Ukrainian children and forcibly turn them into the next generation of Russians,” according to a new report.

Russia's silent war front: Internal Kremlin documents prove that Vladimir Putin planned the deportation of Ukrainian children even before the war began.

Russification: Russia continues abducting Ukrainian children and turning them into Russians

The latest news on Russia and Ukraine. A new report from the ISW alleges that Russia has institutionalized a program to abduct Ukrainian children from occupied territories, aiming to erase their national identity and integrate them into Russian society. The research alleges that Moscow had planned the mass relocation and forced assimilation of Ukrainian minors even before its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting orphans and vulnerable minors …