Russians stole 84 disabled kids from Oleshky. Activists just found 46 of them
When Russia occupies a town, they don't just steal washing machines — they steal the most vulnerable people they can find. Volunteers have finally tracked down nearly half of the disabled kids kidnapped from Kherson region.
Out of over a hundred residents in the Oleshky boarding school before the occupation, 84 ended up illegally deported deep into Russian-controlled territory. Tracking them down seemed almost impossible, but activists from the Emile Foundation have managed to locate 46 of them.
The geography of where these kids ended up is a masterclass in bureaucratic gaslighting. Fifteen of them are in occupied Skadovsk, where the occupation authorities simply set up a fake copycat institution, named it "Alyoshkin", and pretended they just "relocated" the original school. Dozens of others are scattered across Crimea and the Arabat Spit.
But the absolute peak of cynicism is in the Russian city of Penza. Three of these Ukrainian kids with severe disabilities were sent to a facility run by the sister of Maria Lvova-Belova — yes, the very same Russian children's ombudsman wanted by the International Criminal Court for kidnapping Ukrainian children.
Building a family franchise out of international war crimes is certainly a bold choice for a country that claims to defend traditional family values.
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