Putin's planes took Ukrainian kids into 'coerced' Russian adoption, a Yale report says
Russia,Ukraine,Ukraine War,Adoption
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Russia's president and senior Kremlin officials have financed and facilitated the transport of at least 314 Ukrainian children in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine into coerced foster care and adoptions since the 2022 invasion, according to a new investigation released Tuesday by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab.
The Yale researchers say the children have been listed in Russia's child placement databases or placed directly with Russian families.
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