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Thom Reilly, Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University

Russia is trying to force Ukrainian children to become Russian, with reeducation, forcible transfers and camps

A fence featuring 20,000 stuffed teddy bears, each representing a Ukrainian child abducted by Russia, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

“Crimes against humanity.”

That’s what an investigation in March 2026 called Russia’s “deportation and forcible transfer” of Ukrainian children and “their enforced disappearance.”

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