UNITED NATIONS, April 5. /TASS/. Mothers of Ukrainian children removed from their homes in Europe are asking Russia for help, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at the Arria-formula meeting of the UN Security Council initiated by Russia on Wednesday.
"The West is not concerned about the Ukrainization of Russian-speaking children taken from Donbass by Kiev, to say nothing of the forcible Ukrainization of Russians that is in full swing across Ukraine," Nebenzya said. "Hushing up the fact that children are being taken away from Ukrainian refugees in European countries is part of this propaganda campaign. According to various sources, children have already been removed from 80 families in Germany alone."
"The same thing is happening in Spain and Portugal. The number of victims is in the hundreds. Strangers are taking small children and bringing them to orphanages," the diplomat stressed. "The mothers who try to get their kids back are threatened with criminal prosecution. In the meantime, Ukrainian ambassadors and consuls merely throw up their hands. They are not going to quarrel with the governments of the countries delivering weapons to [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s regime."
"The problem has reached such proportions that Ukrainian mothers, who have lost all hope of getting justice, flood social networks with messages and ask us for help," Nebenzya said.
Video recordings of such appeals were shown during the meeting.