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Russia's youngest victims

Russia's youngest victims

Some are killed. Some are kidnapped. Almost all of Ukraine's children are psychologically damaged.

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May 27, 2023
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Someday, the Russian military will have been driven from every inch of Ukraine’s territory. And Russia will be forced to pay restitution for what it has destroyed in Ukraine, down to the last brick.

That’s for the physical damage, at least. No amount of rubles (or, considering the ruble will likely be useless, oil and other raw materials for rebuilding Ukraine) will adequately compensate for the lives lost and destroyed.

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The artillery and missile attacks get all the attention, but Putin’s most shocking crime against humanity may be the wholesale kidnapping, brainwashing and “Russification” of Ukrainian children in territories under its control.

At least 6,000 children, and perhaps as many as 19,000, according to the Daily Mail:

The 15-year-old Ukrainian schoolgirl was taken one warm morning last October.

Like everyone else in Kherson, a city on the estua…

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