“Thousands of our children still must be brought back, and we count on broad international support to make it possible. Thank you to everybody who is helping.”
— @ZelenskyyUa, President of Ukraine
#BringKidsBack 🇺🇦
"We urge Russia to return abducted children and reunite them with their loved ones immediately, ending this cruel and inhumane practice".
Japan stands in strong solidarity with the Ukrainian people and remains committed to supporting the protection of children 🇯🇵💪
🇺🇦 «Returning Ukrainian children is not a political matter. It is a test of our humanity. It is a humanitarian call. When it comes to humanity, neutrality is impossible.»
— @ZelenskaUA, First Lady of Ukraine
🇺🇦🇫🇮 «There’s not one human being, depending on which side you are in this war, who doesn’t understand how heinous this crime that Russia is doing is. So, therefore, let’s continue to work with this issue, let’s bring the kids back.»
— @alexstubb, President of the Republic of
Yesterday, our Bring Kids Back UA initiative launched a new campaign – one that, right now, brings together very different people through a deeply just emotion and an absolutely essential purpose.
Just ahead of Easter – a family holiday – we’re reminding the world that until the
Russia kills children from a distance with missiles and drones. Those who fall under its control, it steals — erasing their Ukrainian identity.
Russia forges their names, their documents, their entire lives. Children are forced to forget who they are.
Yesterday at the UN
❗️👇Look at these two documents. Here's Marharyta Prokopenko's real birth certificate — a Ukrainian child, born in Ukraine.
And here's what Russia did to her — renamed her Maryna Mironova and falsely claimed she was born in Russia.
‼️🚨Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, under an ICC arrest warrant, openly described how she abducted a boy from Mariupol, forced him to stay in Russia, and broke his worldview.
She recounts how Philip sang Ukrainian songs, said he
🇺🇦🇳🇴 «No one wants peace more than the Ukrainians, and no one deserves peace more than the children of Ukraine.»
— @jonasgahrstore, Prime Minister of Norway
🇺🇦🇨🇦 «I want to be clear at the outset of who's responsible for these horrors. Putin has caused this terrible tragedy that has claimed in the war lives of millions. Thousands of children have been abducted by Russia. To lose a child is every parent's nightmare. For the people of
🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 The US Senate has passed The Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act — bipartisan legislation aimed at helping Ukraine locate, return, and rehabilitate children abducted by Russia during its full-scale invasion.
The Act, introduced by @SenAmyKlobuchar
As many of us prepare to spend Easter with our families, thousands of Ukrainian children are still missing — abducted by Russia, torn from their families, their homes, and their identity.
There can be no lasting or just peace without the return of Ukrainian children.
"We call on Russia to stop its deportations, return all Ukrainian children home, and cease attacks on the homes, schools, and infrastructure that protect them. Stop destroying childhood for Ukrainian children" 🇬🇧🫂🙏