End abduction and brainwashing of Ukrainian children

As our own children return to school, kidnapped Ukrainian children are being indoctrinated in Russian imperialist ideology and auctioned off by their captors.

- Alicia Kearns

This is not the chaos of war but a deliberate campaign to erase Ukraine’s future — its children. Tens of thousands of children have been ripped from their families and live under a constant shadow of fear.

Deprived of food, medicine and clothing, they are subjected to military drills, abuse and humiliation while being punished for using their own language, their own names and daring to invoke the memory of their families and loved ones. In Crimea, “summer camps” are not places of rest, but of cultural annihilation — a war crime and form of genocide.

Some of the abducted children have even been found in online catalogues, sorted by eye colour, hair colour or so-called character traits such as “obedient” or “calm”. Like objects in a marketplace, their humanity is reduced to labels, ready for Russian families to adopt them in a practice worthy of Stalin.

The Kremlin dares to celebrate its actions as “saving” Ukrainian children. But this is no rescue; it’s brutal social conditioning — moulding a stolen Ukrainian generation to serve as future soldiers, cannon fodder against their own people.