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Senators want Russia held accountable for abducting Ukrainian children

U.S. senators reviewed evidence that Russia forcibly transferred over 19,500 Ukrainian children to erase their identities and discussed measures to ensure their return and accountability.

  • Ukrainian officials and humanitarian activists urged Congress to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism for its role in kidnapping Ukrainian children, with estimates of at least 20,000 abductions reported by Save Ukraine.
  • A Senate panel hearing emphasized that Russia's actions are genocidal, aimed at erasing Ukrainian identity, as stated by Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The goal of the abductions is to erase Ukrainian identity, with claims that children are subjected to reeducation and forced into Russian culture.
  • Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S., testified that the forced abduction of children violates international law and is part of a deliberate strategy to erase their connections to Ukraine.
  • Congressperson Brian Fitzpatrick emphasized the moral obligation to pressure Russia to return every child, stating that if Russia continues to kidnap Ukraine’s children, it will bear the full weight of being recognized for what it has become.
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Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal told about this at a hearing in the US Senate on December 3. According to him, since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Russia has kidnapped and forcibly relocated more than 19,000 Ukrainian children, including babies who are only a few months.He said that since February 24, 2022 For a year, he has already visited Ukraine eight times and has seen firsthand the cruel consequences of Putin's aggre…

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Washington Times broke the news in United States on Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
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