War And Children

                                        What is the relation between war and children? However, it has become the main subject of negotiation in the Ukraine war.  It is reported that thousands of Ukrainian children were abducted from the war zone to Russia. It is also noted that orphanage centers in war frontline cities of Ukraine appear to be vacant. 

                                        Ukraine had submitted the list of lost children during the peace talks with Russia. It is presumed that those children were saved by Russian soldiers and evacuated during the war. Russia has to find out how many of them are alive.  Outside Russia, it is considered to be a war crime, as those children were kidnapped. There were instances where one of the kidnapped children refused to talk to their parent. This shows that the longer those children remain in Russia, the more difficult it will be to trace them.

                                        1200 children have been returned because of the efforts made by their relatives and humanitarian organizations.  However, the Ukrainian government had given an additional list of 339 of children and asked Russia to return them as a goodwill gesture in the peace talks. However, Yale University's report says that 8400 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. However, America does not want Ukraine to make one of the conditions to return kidnapped children in peace talks with Russia. America its own way, is making an effort to get returned of those children.

                                       International Criminal Court, Hague, issued an arrest warrant against the russian president for the unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia. The Russian president is irritated due to an arrest warrant, but said issue is not on his priorities. It is observed that russian media consider the adoption and reeducation of Ukrainian children as charity and an act of patriotism. It is said that those transferred Ukrainian children are kept in Russia in 136 places, which are consist of schools, hotels, hospitals, and summer camps. The Ukrainian government is giving due priority to the return of those 11000 children as one of the conditions in peace talks with Russia.  The Ukrainian president has assigned the task of getting back those children to his close aide, who is conversant with russian geography.

                                     It is observed that the population of Ukraine has been reduced to 32 million from 41 million after Russian aggression, and the abduction of those children is making the crisis more serious. 

                                    However, one thing is certain that war has nothing to do with children. The abduction of those children is creating more emotional, social, and family miseries in Ukraine, which is more severe than the physical destruction of war. Besides that, it is a humanitarian problem.

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