PUTIN’S forces may have stolen “tens of thousands” of children over the past year, a Ukrainian MP has claimed.
Currently, Ukraine has confirmed 13,000 cases of children being deported to Russia, Ukrainian MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze told Sky News, but the real number could be far higher.
She said: “However, we also have information about many more of those that are counted in tens of thousands. But we just do not have the official kind of recording of those … and this is part of the genocide that the Russian Federation is conducting against the Ukrainian nation.
“Because turning children, abducting them, and turning children into different nationality by spreading them around the Russian Federation and actually giving them to Russian families, that is just another trace of genocide that is ongoing right now in the centre of Europe.”
This comes as Russian losses continue to soar, with Putin facing 153,120 casualties as of March 5.
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