US EditionU.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar Visits Pope Leo XIV at Vatican Advocating for Return of Ukrainian Children From Russia
Sen. Klobuchar and a Ukrainian delegation urged Pope Leo XIV to help return over 19,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces during the war.
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U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar visits Pope Leo XIV at Vatican advocating for return of Ukrainian children from Russia
Minnesota U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) traveled to the Vatican Friday where she met with Pope Leo XIV along with a delegation from Ukraine. “The Pope understands that we cannot accept a world where children are used as pawns of war,” she said.
Russia is recruiting Ukrainian children and teenagers, offering them financial rewards for sabotage and other attacks against their own country, according to Ukraine's civilian counterintelligence service, the SBU. Of the more than 800 Ukrainians identified, 240 were minors. Some were as young as 11, but there have also been cases of attempts to recruit children as young as nine or ten. According to Andriy Nebytov, deputy commander of Ukraine's …
Leo XIV met with Ukrainian women at the Apostolic Palace – mothers and wives of prisoners held captive by Russia, as well as a group of teenagers who had been forcibly deported to Russia and have now returned to their homeland. "This meeting gives us hope that the Holy See protects us and works for those still in captivity," the Ukrainians told Vatican journalists. The article "They Were Forcibly Abducted to Russia, Now They Could Meet with the …
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