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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sarah El Deeb,Anastasiia Shvets and Elizaveta Tilna

How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians

Copyright 2022 The Associated press. All rights reserved

Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement like a trapped animal. She hadn’t heard from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol for over a week, and she didn’t know what to do.

The family would end up getting caught up in one of the most explosive issues of the war: Russia’s open effort to take Ukrainian orphans and bring them up as Russian.

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