Why Russia Is Taking Thousands of Ukrainian Children

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As Russian troops pushed into Ukraine, children who were fleeing newly occupied territories were swept up. Many became part of a Russian effort to portray itself as a charitable savior. The children were placed in Russian families and paraded on television. The Times interviewed one child who was taken from Ukraine, a girl named Anya, who said she ached to return. Guest: Emma Bubola, a reporter for The New York Times based in London.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernice and this is the Daily.
0:07.0	As Vladimir Putin makes his case for the war in Ukraine to the Russian people, he's using
0:17.2	an unexpected tool, Ukrainian children.
0:21.0	Ukraine says thousands of them, mostly orphans, have been relocated to Russia where they're
0:25.6	placed in Russian families and paraded on Russian television.
0:29.6	Today, my colleague Emma Bubola tells the story of one of those children.
0:41.6	It's Friday, March 3rd.
0:54.6	Emma, usually when we talk about the war in Ukraine, we talk about battles and weapons
0:59.7	and military strategy, but you've been reporting on a very different kind of campaign by Russia.
1:07.6	And this campaign involves children.
1:10.3	Tell me about this reporting.
1:12.3	Yes, so I was covering the news about Ukraine last summer and I started seeing these
1:18.5	British-hawking allegations by Ukrainian authorities that Russia was taking Ukrainian children
1:25.5	without their parents to Russia and sometimes placing them in Russian families and giving
1:30.4	them up for adoption.
1:31.4	And Emma, to be clear, the accusations were that Russian soldiers were taking Ukrainian
1:37.4	children back to Russia?
1:39.4	No, at that time, the accusations were really vague.
1:43.2	So Russia was taking Ukrainian children, but we did not know exactly where they were taking
1:50.5	them from, how they were being taken and who was taking them.
1:56.9	And that's what I wanted to figure out, to identify at least some cases to report if this
2:04.2	was happening and how.
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