In summer 2022, Russia began a program to bring children from occupied Ukraine to summer camps inside Russia. An unknown number of those children have since been adopted into Russian families
Finding her 11-year-old brother Serhiy – one of thousands of Ukrainian children who have been illegally deported to Russia sincelaunched his war on this country – had already been an eight-month ordeal for Ksenia. And the hardest part was yet to come.
At first, residents of Vovchans’k, which had a prewar population of 17,000, tried to avoid the invading army. But as they ran low on food, they eventually had to emerge from their basement shelters to buy groceries. While shops in Vovchans’k were closed, those across the border in the Russian city of Shebekino were open.
A report published by Ms. Lvova-Belova in July said 700,000 Ukrainian children have moved to Russia since the start of the invasion. The vast majority of those arrived in Russia with their families, the report said, although 1,500 orphans from the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine had also been resettled, 380 of whom had since been adopted by Russian families.
“People became collaborators. That’s how my brother ended up in that summer camp. People agreed to work with the Russian authorities,” Ksenia said. “I tried to convince our foster mom not to send my brother, but I couldn’t. She gave parental permission for him to go.” All she had to do now was go find him – and persuade him to leave Russia with her. When she first called him to say the documents were ready, Ksenia says Serhiy was happy to hear it and ready to go home. But then, she says, his new foster family began trying to persuade him to stay.
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