Eastern Ukraine has a mix of ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians so yes there will probably be ethnic Ukrainian children there.
If your talking about the accusations about stealing children. I think this is just a normal school the Russians are pouring resources into rebuilding cities that were ravaged by the war, or at least they want to portray that they are. If Russia genuinely believe it is annexed territory it isn’t really weird for them to have public services. It is a bit fucked for some random halfway access the world to fantasize about blowing it up.
On the stealing children thing, Ngl everytime I read about it I get more confused. There was a long form piece on PBS newshour last month or a couple months on mother’s smuggling themselves into Russia to get their children from a boarding facilities, they lived in a city that was on the Russian controlled side of the Frontline that was evacuated or something. They went on great lengths to get into Russia and then to crimea because you can’t really just like drive through a warzone. But when they got to the boarding facility they presented their id and there children were returned to them without any hassle. There were government employees bc it was a state run facility but not like soldiers or anything like that. The whole thing was just weird. iirc they had hidden cameras on them so it wasn’t like the staff at the facility would be like “don’t make a scene bc they are gonna catch us red handed”.
Idk how to describe why the tone of the piece felt weird. Seeing, once they got there, them just pick up their kids without a fuss stood in contrast to what is being portrayed as genocide. Like the fact they had to smuggle themselves there is seriously fucked. Maybe you’ll just call me a genocide denier but the malice and intent that I think of when I hear genocide was just seemed missing. Idk
I’ll see if I can find the report. On phone rn so kinda hard to dig up. And sorry if autocorrect fucked something up or my punctuation is bad.
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Eastern Ukraine has a mix of ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians so yes there will probably be ethnic Ukrainian children there.
If your talking about the accusations about stealing children. I think this is just a normal school the Russians are pouring resources into rebuilding cities that were ravaged by the war, or at least they want to portray that they are. If Russia genuinely believe it is annexed territory it isn’t really weird for them to have public services. It is a bit fucked for some random halfway access the world to fantasize about blowing it up.
On the stealing children thing, Ngl everytime I read about it I get more confused. There was a long form piece on PBS newshour last month or a couple months on mother’s smuggling themselves into Russia to get their children from a boarding facilities, they lived in a city that was on the Russian controlled side of the Frontline that was evacuated or something. They went on great lengths to get into Russia and then to crimea because you can’t really just like drive through a warzone. But when they got to the boarding facility they presented their id and there children were returned to them without any hassle. There were government employees bc it was a state run facility but not like soldiers or anything like that. The whole thing was just weird. iirc they had hidden cameras on them so it wasn’t like the staff at the facility would be like “don’t make a scene bc they are gonna catch us red handed”.
Idk how to describe why the tone of the piece felt weird. Seeing, once they got there, them just pick up their kids without a fuss stood in contrast to what is being portrayed as genocide. Like the fact they had to smuggle themselves there is seriously fucked. Maybe you’ll just call me a genocide denier but the malice and intent that I think of when I hear genocide was just seemed missing. Idk
I’ll see if I can find the report. On phone rn so kinda hard to dig up. And sorry if autocorrect fucked something up or my punctuation is bad.
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