cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/3977938

“While Kremlin officials argue that they are “saving” the children by removing them from their homes, international watchdogs have called the forcible removal of Ukrainian kids — including infants as young as four months old — a war crime.”

  • Hairyblue
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    39 months ago

    Russia did invade the Ukraine, they are killing Ukraine citizens and stealing their children. Russia started this war because Putin thought it would be easy to just take the country. Russia was mistaken. Ukraine, a democracy and has the right to defend itself from the Russian invaders. All facts, and no propaganda.

    Siding with Russia is wrong. Simple.

    • Firestorm Druid
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      29 months ago

      All of these are valid points, but you can omit the “the” when talking about Ukraine. “The Ukraine” is quite an archaic expression and has been a major talking point for several years now to just call the country “Ukraine”. There’s a similar problem in Ukrainian and Russian where people are encouraged to adjust their language too.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    19 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    An estimate from the Yale School of Public Health puts the number of Ukrainian children that have been displaced or deported since the war began in the hundreds of thousands, including at least 6,000 who have been held in a series of Russian camps and ordered to undergo “re-education” programs to make their personal and political views more pro-Russia.

    Russia operates at least 43 known facilities dedicated to providing “re-education,” military training, and pro-Russia academic instruction to Ukrainian children forcibly removed from their homes, the Yale report indicated.

    Children who have been rescued from the camps describe being forbidden to speak Ukrainian, being forced to listen to the Russian national anthem repeatedly, and being lied to and told their parents had abandoned them, according to firsthand accounts collected by the “Children of War” project compiled by Ukraine’s Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, established in 2016 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

    In recent months, UN representatives of multiple countries have echoed Biden’s outrage, including Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Albania.

    Ferit Hoxa, Albania’s representative to the UN, called the deportations “an audacious bid to dismantle its future” of Ukraine, adding that Moscow “has failed to convince the world that its re-education camps and forced adoptions are, as portrayed, humanitarian actions” in an August statement.

    Russia, which does not recognize the court’s authority, called the move meaningless and on Monday opened its own criminal cases against ICC prosecutors and judges, Politico reported.


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  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    09 months ago

    Why do all these articles sound like propaganda? They are all going for the emotional reaction to make people see Russia as the new enemy of the world. Are we being prepped for a new World War so bankers and elites can make more money?

    Yesterday it was how Russia is raping 80 year olds.

    • @Fisk400@feddit.nu
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      29 months ago

      I think you forgot to put the Echo signs around (((Bankers and Elites))) or is that not the meta anymore?

        • YeetPics
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          19 months ago

          All wars are for profits and population reduction.

          as in russian War for land and wealth in Ukraine…so that story about all the Ukraine nazis is false, good to know you’ve escaped your propaganda tank.

          Please excuse us while we cheer for the side that’s getting invaded.

        • @Fisk400@feddit.nu
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          19 months ago

          Is the new meta to just ignore that people are calling you a Nazi and just carry on with the talking points? It’s not a good meta. It just makes you look stupid.

      • @1984@lemmy.today
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        9 months ago

        Every new generation is this stupid I guess. I guess it’s no point explaining how propaganda works to you.

        • @Szymon@lemmy.ca
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          Go put some sunflower seeds in your pockets and join your friends.

          Funny how there are reports of waves of Russian propaganda coming to muddy the message and suddenly we have fools like this claiming that Russia kidnapping children sounds illogical and far fetched.

          Enjoy your future, Nazi bitch. Russia made itself the enemy of the world, it doesnt need help in doing so.

    • Heresy_generator
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      29 months ago

      This is what reporting on a genocide looks like. There’s no way to put a happy face on an imperial power trying to wipe an ethnic group and their culture off the face of the Earth as part of a war of conquest.

    • Unaware7013
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      29 months ago

      Why do all these articles sound like propaganda?

      Probably because you haven’t been paying attention to this shit happening the whole war, or don’t want to recognize how shitty Russia is and is behaving.

      They are all going for the emotional reaction to make people see Russia as the new enemy of the world.

      Actually, Russia is trying to make Russia the enemy of the world by illegally invading Ukraine and trying to genocide (this is literally Article II point e, but it’s easy to make arguments for most of the other points) it’s people.

      Yesterday it was how Russia is raping 80 year olds.

      Sounds like Russia is a shit hole and is only exporting suffering into the country they’re trying to take over and destroy it’s people.

    • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      19 months ago

      What do you define as propaganda? Does it need to be untrue or misleading? Because this article and many others regarding Russia are true and not misleading, but still does accomplish a geopolitical purpose of decreasing the credibility and influence of Russia.

    • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      19 months ago

      I used to wonder why people ignored Nazi crimes until it was too late. But thanks to people like you, now I understand better the class of idiot that led to it