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Iryna Tuliakova

Iryna Tuliakova is the head of Ukraine's Coordination Center for Family Upbringing and Child Care Development.

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A boy on a train hugs a soft toy during an evacuation from Polohy, Zaporizhzhia Oblast to western Ukraine on March 26, 2022

How Ukraine is building a system of returning, reintegrating, and protecting children abducted by Russia

by Iryna Tuliakova
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, one of its most disturbing and least visible crimes has targeted Ukraine’s most vulnerable: our children. Under occupation, Russia has orchestrated the forced transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia or Russian-controlled territories. There, they face illegal adoption, involuntary Russian citizenship, and aggressive assimilation designed to sever their ties to Ukraine. This is not a humanitarian crisis — it is a war crime. And the world h