Ukraine, in Lugansk newborns taken away from their mothers if none of the parents are Russian

The Luhansk territory is almost entirely under Russian occupation, in some areas since 2014, and Lysohor governs it in the name of the Ukrainian government only on paper. Accordingly, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which reports on the imposition of Russian citizenship on newborns in the region, also makes the premise “in case the news had been reported accurately”. Nothing impossible, however: the same ISW report mentions a series of acts of “forced integration of Ukrainian citizens into the Russian system” in the occupied territories: in the last few days alone several Ukrainian families were transferred from the Kherson region to the Crimea or in other areas under Russian control, further from the front, and civilians from the Zaporizhzhia region were deported across the border, to Rostov-on-Don. The same Russian occupation authorities also spread the news of the movement of dozens of children from Kherson to the “Oceano” youth camp, on the other side of the world, near Vladivostok, where 200 Ukrainian children should be sent this year who, according to the testimonies of those who have already been there, they are indoctrinated into Russian militarism and invited to enroll in the deep schools of Russia.

Pressures on the population of the Ukrainian territories employed to force her to choose Russian citizenship are many: from bureaucratic problems to access welfare or schools, to medical assistance: in some areas, the diabetic patients who insisted on remaining Ukrainian they were threatened with running out of insulin. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the main target has been children: Ukraine accuses Moscow of illegal deportations to Russia more than 20 thousand minors, including several thousand orphans. Many of them were adopted with an accelerated procedure: the leader of the Just Russia party Sergei Mironov, one of the most ardent supporters of Putinism, took with him an 11-month-old girl, Margarita Prokopenko, despite having two brothers and a son. adoptive mother in Ukraine. The girl’s name and birthplace were changed to make her sound Russian. The same fate befell Vania, a little girl from Donetsk, whose story was revealed a few days ago by the Russian TV in exile Dozhd: despite having an older sister, it was handed over to a Russian family. The adoptive mother told the cameras that Vania, who is now 6 years old, had long insisted on repeating her real surname: “But now she is calm when she says my surname, now she is forgetting her previous life”, she said. she said. she explained satisfied.