Our founder @Kpavlevych testified at the hearing by @TLHumanRights about abduction of 🇺🇦 children. She shared the stories of children rescued with the help of @FLOTUS & urged Congress to apply pressure on putin and defund 🇷🇺system of abductions by imposing sanctions on 🇷🇺 oil

Since 2025 not a single person involved in abduction of Ukrainian children has been sanctioned by the US. This bill imposes sanctions on individuals & companies facilitating the abductions. @HouseDemocrats @HouseGOP pass the bill to help free Ukrainian children!

Today is the Day of Remembrance for Children Killed as a Result of russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine and the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. According to official data alone, since the start of the full-scale invasion, russian missiles, drones, and shells have taken the lives of more than 700 Ukrainian children. More than 2,500 others have suffered serious injuries. Behind these numbers are broken families, shattered worlds, and dreams that will never come true. These children should have been enjoying summer, discovering the world, bringing smiles to their parents, and building the future of our free country. Instead, russia cynically and deliberately wrote a different story for them and stole their lives. This is a planned genocide, an attempt to destroy us as a nation by killing our future. We must do everything possible to bring to justice every war criminal who gave or carried out these inhumane orders. Not a single child's tear and not a single life cut short should go unpunished. The world must act decisively to stop this evil and protect every Ukrainian child. Eternal memory to these little angels, and our deepest condolences to their families 🙏🏻 📷 Open sources

In may, in Washington, D.C., I delivered a message that many policymakers found deeply unsettling: The militarization of Ukrainian children in occupied territories is not only a humanitarian crisis. It is a growing security threat that extends far beyond Ukraine. During meetings with the U.S. Department of State (@StateDept), briefings for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), the State Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee (SFOPS), and the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, as well as conversations with @SenJoniErnst , Senator Richard Blumenthal, the offices of Senator Katie Britt, Senator Brian Schatz, Representative Kevin Kiley, and Representative Jim McGovern, I spoke about a reality that remains largely invisible outside the occupied territories. Russia is systematically raising a generation of children to serve its future military and political ambitions. Children are taught that their duty is to fight for russia. They are told that the United States and the democratic world are their enemies. Military training is being integrated into schools. Teenagers are recruited into state-sponsored militarized youth organizations. Digital government platforms are increasingly being used to steer young people toward military service. But perhaps the most disturbing examples come from the stories children themselves share after escaping occupation. Some describe being forced to watch staged propaganda videos showing supposedly Ukrainian soldiers cutting open the stomachs of pregnant women. Even 11-year-old girls were prohibited from leaving the room during these screenings. The purpose was simple: to convince children that Ukrainians are “Nazis” and that hatred is justified. Others describe constant messaging that serving in Russia’s military is not a choice but an obligation — a debt owed to the state, their family, and their future. This is not education, but ideological conditioning. We often discuss the deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children as a humanitarian issue. It is that. But it is also something more. Every month a child remains under occupation increases the likelihood that propaganda, isolation, and militarization will shape their identity and worldview. Russia is not only trying to erase Ukrainian identity. It is investing in a generation that can be mobilized in support of its future aggression. That is why bringing children home is about more than rescuing individuals. It is about protecting the future of Ukraine and preventing the weaponization of an entire generation. I am grateful to our American partners who are listening, asking difficult questions, and recognizing the urgency of this challenge. In occupied territories, time works against children. And that is why we cannot afford to wait.

Child kidnappers get jail time in democratic countries. They get a promotion under the russian regime.

Joint efforts remain essential to ensure the return of all Ukrainian children and to hold accountable those responsible for forced deportation, forced adoption, re-education, Russification, and militarisation of Ukrainian children. We are grateful to our partners for increasing pressure through sanctions. 🇬🇧 The United Kingdom has sanctioned 85 individuals and entities. 🇨🇦 Canada is imposing sanctions on 23 individuals and 5 organisations. 🇪🇺 The European Union sanctions target 16 individuals and 7 organisations. “These measures target not only individuals and entities, but also the entire machinery behind the forced deportation and assimilation of Ukrainian children. This is not politics. It is about protecting children, defending human dignity, and upholding international law,” stated Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha.

Today, we stand in solidarity with thousands of Ukrainian mothers who continue to look for their children abducted by Russia. You are not alone. You are not forgotten. #MothersDay

The best indicator that Russia prepares for war, not peace, is its system of indoctrination and militarization of children. Must-read 👇

Don't miss a historic event that will bring attention to the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia 👇

In addition to being the largest contributor to the Russian federal budget that is sponsoring state-wide abduction and reeducation of Ukrainian children, oil companies are directly involved in the crime by owning camps where over 2,000 children were illegally taken.

We welcome the decision of the @StateDept & Congress to allocate $25 million to rescue & rehabilitate abducted Ukrainian children 👏 And we urge them to reinstate sanctions on 🇷🇺 oil industry - the main source of the federal budget that sponsors the system of child abductions.

"Ukraine's stolen children must be returned. We must remember Sofia and all of Ukraine's children"- by @PYNance for @NEWSMAX . newsmax.com/pennynance/child…

As the US Congress begins shaping its Fiscal Year 2027 budget, a small but symbolically powerful provision has emerged from both chambers: $15 million dedicated to tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia - by @ralakbar for @RFERL. rferl.org/a/us-funds-track-a…

🚨Attention, DC🚨 Join the hearing about abducted children of Ukraine. Our founder, @Kpavlevych will testify along with distinguished witnesses, including David Crane, Amb. David Scheffer and Inna Liniova.

The arrest warrant definitely sent a strong signal to the Kremlin and is a big step towards justice. But as of today, Putin and Lvova-Belova and their accomplices continue their evil mission of stripping Ukrainian children of their identity and turning them into Russian soldiers

"Until Russia returns the children it has taken — and ends the systems designed to erase those who remain under occupation — no settlement can be considered credible, durable or just" - by @Kristina__Hook for @thehill. thehill.com/opinion/internat…

Thank you, France, Denmark, Latvia, Panama, and others, for raising the issue of the abducted Ukrainian children at the United Nations. And special thanks to @FLOTUS for your personal commitment to bringing Ukrainian children home and reuniting them with their families.

“If it was a war about territory, why would they take Ukrainian children?” In today’s Older/Wiser podcast, RDI’s Linda Chavez and @Kpavlevych of @razomforukraine/@ForgetUsNotNet discuss Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian youth. Premium subscribers to The Next Move can listen now! thenextmove.org/p/the-destru…