Donets and Lugansk were regions of Ukraine which attempted to secede through democratic means, and in 2014 the Ukrainian government started to bomb them in response, so a civil war was triggered. After the Russian annexation of part of those territories since 2022, some orphanages which existed in the region, more so given the civil war, had formally Ukrainian children under no de-facto protection by the Ukrainian government, and these children were in formally Russian territory under Russian law. What do you expect a government to do in those circumstances, to send them to somewhere in Ukraine where they never lived or to take responsibility for them?
Again, think for one second: how many children do you expect to see in a warzone? This is a matter of children without parents stranded in a region of the world which changes de-facto government from one country to another.
Given your qualms with nationalities: do you think Estonia engaged in genocide when it forced ethnic Russian citizens who legally lived there in USSR times to absorb the Estonian nationality to have rights in Estonia?
Putin strips children of their citizenship and forces them to become Russians.
It doesn’t get much more to the point then that.
You’ve got nothing as usual
Donets and Lugansk were regions of Ukraine which attempted to secede through democratic means, and in 2014 the Ukrainian government started to bomb them in response, so a civil war was triggered. After the Russian annexation of part of those territories since 2022, some orphanages which existed in the region, more so given the civil war, had formally Ukrainian children under no de-facto protection by the Ukrainian government, and these children were in formally Russian territory under Russian law. What do you expect a government to do in those circumstances, to send them to somewhere in Ukraine where they never lived or to take responsibility for them?
Again, think for one second: how many children do you expect to see in a warzone? This is a matter of children without parents stranded in a region of the world which changes de-facto government from one country to another.
Given your qualms with nationalities: do you think Estonia engaged in genocide when it forced ethnic Russian citizens who legally lived there in USSR times to absorb the Estonian nationality to have rights in Estonia?
It doesn’t matter what I think it matters what the definition of a genocide is.
Stripping people especially children of their citizenship and making them Russians without giving them a choice fits that definition of a genocide.
Lol. No it doesn’t