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Melania Trump works with Putin to reunite displaced Ukrainian children with families

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God bless Melania for her humanitarian efforts.
This is woefully inaccurate. Russia kidnapped over 20, 000 children and they know exactly where they are. Claiming that this group of eight were " displaced " on the front line is frankly ,despicable. Where are the other 20K? This article makes light of the real situation.

The real story:

Ukraine and international bodies accuse Russia of unlawfully deporting and transferring many children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
Estimates vary, but Ukraine has confirmed the identities of over 19,000 children. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children).
Russia, while facing accusations and an ICC arrest warrant for the forced deportation of Ukrainian children, still controls their return. Melania Trump's effort uses an "open channel of communication" with Putin to negotiate the return of specific children.
The efforts focus on returning a small number of individually identified children whose families in Ukraine know their location. This case-by-case negotiation is separate from the thousands of children Russia has been accused of forcibly deporting.
 
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God bless Melania for her humanitarian efforts.
Really? They kidnap children with the intent of russifying them and now they're trying to paint themselves as some sort of humanitarians trying to reunite children? Then don't kidnap and displace them in the first place!
 
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Really? They kidnap children with the intent of russifying them and now they're trying to paint themselves as some sort of humanitarians trying to reunite children? Then don't kidnap and displace them in the first place!
Same as how peace could easily achieved if only Russia would stop/never started attacking Ukraine in the first place.
 
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