U.S. embassy: Illegal removal of Ukrainian children to Russia is not assistance, it is kidnapping

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine wrote this on Twitter, Ukrinform reports.

“According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Russian forces have illegally removed 2,389 Ukrainian children from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to Russia. This is not assistance. It is kidnapping,” the report says.

As Ukrinform reported, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that Russian forces illegally took 2,389 Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Russia and called on the international community to respond immediately.

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