US imposes sanctions over forced deportation, transfer of Ukrainian children
Russia acknowledges having transferred thousands of children out of Ukraine, but says this has been done exclusively to protect orphans and children abandoned in the war zone.
Valeriia, who went to a Russian-organized summer camp from non-government controlled territories and was then taken to Russia, embraces her mother Anastasiia after returning via the Ukraine-Belarus border, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 8, 2023.(photo credit: REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO)ByREUTERSUpdated:
