With all eyes on Ukraine following the embattled nation’s agreement to pause fighting against Russia, Kurt Volker, a former NATO ambassador and special representative for Ukraine, told Newsmax that the international community has not paid enough attention to the abduction of Ukrainian children.
“This is something remarkable that Russia has done, and there hasn’t been enough international attention,” Volker said Tuesday on “American Agenda.” “They have abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children and moved them to Russia, put them in orphanages or put them in homes of people, and are re-indoctrinating them to believe that they are Russian rather than Ukrainian and that Ukrainians are Nazis and have attacked Russia, and, therefore, they should be defending Russia. And some of them were in their early teens when they were abducted [and] are now being pushed to serve in Russia’s military to fight against their own compatriots.”
Kyiv agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in the three-year-long war with Russia, pending Moscow’s acceptance of the offer, American and Ukrainian officials said Tuesday after talks in Saudi Arabia. Volker said the latest turn of events is “exactly as it should be.”
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