When Russia takes Ukrainian children from their homes and families, Ukrainian mothers have no other choice but to risk their lives trying to bring their kids back, even if that means weeks of travel through Russia and days-long FSB interrogations Otherwise, entire generations might be lost forever.
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00:00When Russian forces occupied Kherson in the early days of the full-scale invasion, Moscow
00:08troops soon started targeting Ukrainian children.
00:11Vlad Rudenko, then 16 years old, was home alone when armed Russian soldiers knocked
00:17on his door.
00:18Vlad was forcefully deported on the 7th of October 2022.
00:42He was put on one of the 15 buses, packed with the Ukrainian children of different age
00:48and taken to annexed and occupied Crimea to what Moscow calls summer camps.
01:18Vlad revolted against this indoctrination and got severely punished.
01:48After 8 months in Russia, Vlad's mother managed to rescue him, but the window of opportunity
02:08to bring back Ukrainian children is closing.