THE HAGUE ¨C Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families, according to a report by Yale¡¯s School of Public Health.
The U.S. State Department-backed research, published on Tuesday, identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to ¡°Russify¡± them.
Reuters was unable to confirm the report¡¯s findings independently.
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