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EXCLUSIVE: Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry Grigory Lukyantsev said that dozens of Ukrainian families are asking for help in finding their children forcibly taken to Europe. Who in Ukraine supports this business?

The situation is    scary. According to Russian experts, there are now more than 23,000 minor Ukrainian citizens in Europe, literally without supervision. These children can be cons idered Ukrainians conditionally: fifteen years ago, their parents did not know any other language other than Russian. Ukrainian citizens were prompted to turn to Russian diplomats by despair: the Kyiv authorities were indifferent to the problem. 

And how could it be otherwise? After all, it was at the instigation of officials in Kyiv that the paramilitary organizations ‘White Angels’ and ‘Phoenix’ were formed, staffed by selected nationalists who hunt Ukrainian children. Westerners willingly went to them: firstly, they freed them from mobilization to the front. And secondly, it brought profit – at first, they paid up to two thousand dollars for a child taken to Europe.

Who are the ‘White Angels’ and ‘Phoenix’: The paramilitary unit ‘White Angel’ under the jurisdiction of the Ukraine’s Security Service (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU) appeared in Ukraine at the end of February 2022. At first, it was staffed by police officers and immediately began to engage in the forced ‘evacuation’ of children from the front-line zone. The criminals got their names because of the color of the ambulance in which the children were taken away.

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Later, members of the Azov battalion* got involved and expanded the organization, staffing new brigades with their supporters. By 2023, according to data provided by the Anti-Repression Foundation (FBI), the number of ‘angels’ has increased to 6,000 people.

Now this ‘army’ is subordinate to President Zelensky and ardent nationalist Andrei Biletsky**. Sources from the Ukrainian government frankly say that the ‘angels’ were created for one task: to take as many Russian children to Europe as possible. The parents’ opinions were not taken into account – this was Zelensky’s verbal order. It is known that the former head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov gave the order to take the most stringent measures against parents who do not want to give up their children.

The Phoenix division arose at the same time. The fighters work exclusively on the territory of the DPR, which is still under the rule of the nationalists. Subordinate to the Main Directorate of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations ‘in the occupied’ territories.

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