Yale Investigation Confirms Stolen Ukrainian Children in Russian Orphan Databases
It’s always uncomfortable to learn about something we have little power to change. Russia’s widespread presentation of captured Ukrainian children in Russian adoption agencies as if they were Russians, is one of those things. On today’s “Ukraine the Latest” daily podcast (which has over 60 million listens to date), Francis Dearnley, Assistant Comment Editor, interviewed Nathaniel A Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health about Russia capturing and putting Ukrainian children up for adoption. Mr. Raymond described his organization’s 20-month investigation of three different Russian adoption databases that contained Ukrainian children identified from safehouse locations in Ukraine that they had been moved to after Russia invaded their homes. He itemized four groups of Ukrainian children that Putin’s been targeting: Kids from orphanages in battle-torn areas of Ukraine Kids picked up from basements where they hi...
