7
May
2025
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Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are discussing the return of those Ukrainian children who were abducted from Ukraine in the course of the Putin-Russia war of aggression. You have to keep that in mind, and you have to tell that to the whole world – and you have to tell that to those who keep trying to relativise. They're the smallest, they're the most vulnerable. It is those who would be most reliant on the help of other people on whom Putin-Russia commits its war crimes. I have no doubt that Russian parents love their children as much as all parents love their children. But I can't imagine anyone approving what's going on with these kids. The children must be brought back. This must be part of any future peace agreement for a free Ukraine, and without retraumatization and without new traumatization, these children must be brought back. They deserve a future in freedom and a future in the knowledge of their Ukrainian identity.