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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 1d

“They wanted us to be like soldiers.”

This story is one of 200 testimonies in Return Every Child report by Save Ukraine and War Child UK exposing Russia’s militarization of abducted Ukrainian children.

📘 Read & share:

www.saveukraineua.org/news/new-rep...

#SaveUkraine

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 4d

This week, we welcomed OSCE PA President Pere Joan Pons Sampietro to our Hope and Healing Center. 🇺🇦🤝🇪🇺

We spoke about Ukrainian children illegally deported by Russia — and the need for global action to bring them home.

Because every child deserves to return. 💙💛

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 4d

This week, we welcomed 🇮🇹 Ambassador Carlo Formosa to our Center of Hope and Recovery.

We spoke about what truly matters: helping rescued children & families heal, adapt, and rebuild their lives.

Those we save become those who save others. 💛💙

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 5d

23 Ukrainian children and teens rescued from occupation — thanks to the joint efforts of Save Ukraine, Volodymyr Klitschko, Tatjana Kiel, WeAreAllUkrainians. Some were threatened, denied education, or separated from their families for years. Now they are safe.

900+ saved. Thousands still waiting.

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 8d

“This is not collateral damage. It is deliberate — and it is a war crime.”

Helen Pattinson, CEO of @warchilduk.bsky.social , writes in @express.co.uk about Ukraine’s stolen children — deported, indoctrinated & abused. Only 1,366 of 19,546 are home.

📰 Read: www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

The 20,000 kids 'stolen by Putin' - brainwashed, tortured and sexually abused

'This is not collateral damage. It is deliberate - and it is a war crime,' warns Helen Pattinson, CEO of War Child UK.

www.express.co.uk

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 11d

“They call it rescue. It is the theft of a generation.”

In @express.co.uk , @aliciakearns.bsky.social exposes how Ukrainian children are abducted, indoctrinated & erased. Only 1,366 of 19,546 identified have come home.

📰 Read: www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

#SaveUkraine

'World risks shaming itself unless we wake up to Putin's genocide in Ukraine'

Harrowing details of testimonies are impossible to forget - but first we must make the effort to listen.

www.express.co.uk

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 12d

22 more Ukrainian children rescued from occupation with support from @klitschko.bsky.social , Tatjana Kiel, WeAreAllUkrainians & partners.

Now they are safe, cared for & can be children again.

📰 Full story: www.saveukraineua.org/news/22-chil...

#SaveUkraine #BringKidsBack

22 Ukrainian children and teenagers have been rescued from TOT

Thanks to Save Ukraine, more than 900 children have already been rescued from Russia and the occupied territories.

www.saveukraineua.org

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 13d

📺 @NHKWORLD_News spotlighted our "Return Every Child" report.

200 rescued children told their stories — exposing indoctrination & militarisation.

📖 Full report: www.saveukraineua.org/news/new-rep...

#UkraineChildren #SaveUkraine

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you to NewsX World for giving me the opportunity to speak about one of the gravest crimes of this war — the mass abduction of Ukrainian children and our mission at Save Ukraine to bring them back home.

📹 Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrin...

#BringKidsBack #UkraineChildren

Focal Length Season 3 Ep. 44: War in Ukraine: Children Pay the Price With Mykola Kuleba |NewsX World

YouTube video by NewsX World

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 14d

“She was certain Ukraine no longer existed.”

One rescued girl’s words show the power of Russian propaganda on abducted children.

In @express.co.uk , John Marone reports on Save Ukraine’s mission to bring them home.

📰 Read: www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

#BringKidsBack #SaveUkraine

Inside horror fight to save Ukrainian children in Russia as 1.6m held

An estimated 1.6million Ukrainian children are being held in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine or in Russia itself, according to Myroslava Kharchenko, a legal advisor for Save Ukraine.

www.express.co.uk

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 14d

“They called it a camp. In reality, it was training to become a soldier.”

Since 2022, nearly 50,000 Ukrainian children have been taken, uniformed, drilled & turned into tools of war for Russia.

📹 Watch the full video & share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_j6...

#UkraineChildren #HumanRights

How Russia turns children into soldiers?

YouTube video by Save Ukraine

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 14d

16 more Ukrainian children are free. 💙💛
Huge thanks to
@klitschko.bsky.social & Tatjana Kiel with WeAreAllUkrainians for helping us bring them home from Russian occupation.
Together, we’re giving kids their childhood back.
📰 Read: www.saveukraineua.org/news/save-uk...
#SaveUkraine #BringKidsBack

Save Ukraine team rescued 16 children from occupation

These children were subjected to pain and threats in an attempt to break them — but without success.

www.saveukraineua.org

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 16d

“I understood it wasn’t just play.”

@lizcookman.bsky.social for @theguardian.com reveals how 200+ Russian “camps” groom Ukrainian children for war, erasing their identity.

📰 Read & share: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
#SaveUkraine

How Russia is grooming Ukraine’s children to fight for it: ‘I understood it wasn’t just play’

Abducted children and those from occupied territories are turning up in Russia’s military-style training camps, with fears that some are already on the frontline

www.theguardian.com

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 19d

17 Ukrainian children have been rescued from Russian occupation.
Behind every number is a story of fear, coercion & survival — and a chance to start again.

📰 Read their stories: www.saveukraineua.org/news/17-chil...

#SaveUkraine #BringKidsBack

17 children & teenagers rescued from occupation

The Save Ukraine team has successfully rescued 17 Ukrainian children and teenagers from temporarily occupied territory.

www.saveukraineua.org

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 22d

Stolen Ukrainian children are forced to build drones, mine detectors & even rifle loaders — weapons used against their own people.

Zak-GarnerPurkis in @express.co.uk exposes Russia’s war crime on an industrial scale.

📰 Read: www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

#BringKidsBack

Putin forces kidnapped Ukrainian children to ‘make drones to kill their families

A new report from US university Yale has found 210 facilities where abducted kids are being put to work making weapons

www.express.co.uk

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 23d

“I want to go home.”

Rescued Ukrainian children often draw houses in art therapy. Home = safety, pets, toys, love.

📹Watch their drawings, hear their voices, share their dream.
👉 Support: giving.classy.org/campaign/699...

#UkraineChildren

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 23d

We welcomed H.E. Joseph D. Blotz, Grand Hospitaller of Order of Malta, Amb. Antonio Gazanti & Malteser INT to our Hope & Healing Center.

Together we support orphans rescued from occupation with safety, education & care.
📰 Full story: www.saveukraineua.org/news/order-o...

#ChildProtection

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 26d

It was an honor to join Jim Sciutto on CNN to highlight findings from Save Ukraine`s new report with War Child UK.

Read full report: www.saveukraineua.org/news/new-rep...

🎥Watch full conversation & share it
youtu.be/6L4aMMvu_DI?...

Mykola Kuleba on CNN

YouTube video by Save Ukraine

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 26d

“In occupied Ukraine, even medicine requires a Russian passport.”

@claramarchaud.bsky.social for @mediapart.fr shows how families are coerced into taking Russian papers — or risk losing healthcare, property & even their children.

📰 Read & share: www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

En Ukraine, la russification à marche forcée des territoires occupés

La population des régions administrées par Moscou a jusqu’au 10 septembre pour partir ou « régulariser » sa situation, c’est-à-dire adopter le passeport russe. Beaucoup se résolvent à devenir russes,…

www.mediapart.fr

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 27d

“Russia is turning childhood into captivity.”

In Disidentia, Alvaro Penas interviews Anastasiia Dovbnia of @saveukraineua on how families in occupied Ukraine face coercion, fear & the erasure of identity.

📰 Read & share: disidentia.com/16-millones-...

#BringKidsBack #HumanRights

"1,6 millones de niños ucranianos están sufriendo el cautiverio ruso”: Anastasia Dovbnia - Disidentia

1,6 millones de niños ucranianos, tanto en Rusia como en los territorios ocupados, están sufriendo el cautiverio ruso.

disidentia.com

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 28d

Last week Save Ukraine rescued 16 children from Russian occupation with support of our partners.

Now they’re safe in our Hope & Healing Centers, rebuilding lives with care & support.

Read & Share stories of these children www.saveukraineua.org/news/save-uk...

#SaveUkraine #BringKidsBack

Save Ukraine team rescued 16 children from occupation

Last week, the Save Ukraine team rescued 16 Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territory.

www.saveukraineua.org

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · 28d

“For 8 months, Vlad was a ghost. His mother refused to let him vanish.”

At 16, he was stolen from Kherson & sent to Russian “re-education” camps. His mother risked everything to bring him back.

Full story on @cnn.com GPS with @fareedzakaria.bsky.social
🎥
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/14/w...

On GPS: A Ukrainian teen’s escape after Russian kidnapping | CNN

Fareed speaks with Vlad Rudenko, a Ukrainian teen who was kidnapped from his home in Kherson at 16, about his mother’s journey to rescue him from Russian-occupied territory.

edition.cnn.com

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · Sep 15

“I was 16 when they took me. For 8 months, I disappeared into Russia.”

Vlad Rudenko, now 17, shares his story of abduction & survival with Fareed Zakaria on @cnn.com GPS.

🎥 Watch & share the full report: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/14/w...

#BringKidsBack #UkraineChildren

On GPS: Meet Vlad, a Ukrainian teen kidnapped by Russia | CNN

Outside Kyiv, Fareed interviews Vlad Rudenko, a Ukrainian teen who was kidnapped from his home in Kherson at 16, and forced to live in camps in Russian-occupied territory for eight months.

edition.cnn.com

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · Sep 12

Austria’s First Lady Doris Schmidauer visited SaveUkraine, meeting families rescued from Russia and occupied territories & showing Austria’s commitment to child protection. With Austria & Kleine Herzen, 27 children have already been saved — and more will follow. 💙💛

youtu.be/Ma0Pf1Dta6g?...

Austria’s First Lady Doris Schmidauer visited our Save Ukraine center

YouTube video by Save Ukraine

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Mykola Kuleba @mykolakuleba.bsky.social · Sep 12

200+ testimonies from Ukrainian children rescued from Russia.

🪖 Forced militarisation
🧠 Indoctrination
⚠️ Torture & identity erasure

With @warchilduk.bsky.social & Human Security Center, we’ve documented the truth.
📰 Read & share the full report:
www.saveukraineua.org/news/new-rep...

New report tells the truth — in the words of Ukrainian children

Together with War Child UK and the Human Security Centre, we have published a joint report based on 200 testimonies of children

www.saveukraineua.org

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