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Russia returns four abducted Ukrainian children in Qatari deal
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67121574?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
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The repatriation is part of a pilot scheme to return more of the thousands of children abducted by Russia following its full-scale invasion last year.
Russia insisted that its motives were purely humanitarian, claiming it evacuated hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children to protect them from danger, with top officials scorning the indictment at the time.
The return of the four children will test a scheme worked on by Qatar after it headed talks with Moscow and Kyiv, said a diplomat who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the process.
They are among thousands of Ukraine children forcibly separated from their families, Kyiv says, taken across the border into Russia and faced with an active effort to strip them of their Ukrainian identity.
The BBC has previously found that Ukrainian children in Russia were frequently told there was nothing in their country to return to and were subjected, to varying degrees, to a “patriotic” Russian education.
“We are encouraged by the commitment and openness shown by both sides throughout the process, which we sincerely hope will lead to more initiatives aimed at de-escalating tensions and building trust between the two parties,” she added.
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