Kradenoe detstvo. Kak Rossiia pokhishchaet ukrainskikh detei — i kak ukraintsy vozvrashchaiut ikh domoi UA

Since the start of the full-scale war, thousands of Ukrainian children have ended up in Russia. Some were taken from occupied territories deep into the occupying country without any explanation. Others could escape the combat zone only across the Russian border. Still others were hurriedly sent by their parents to Russian summer camps, away from the shelling, and then could not be brought back. The Russian authorities are doing everything to make sure the children never return home: they give them new names, find them new families, issue them new citizenship, and teach them a new history. The BBC journalists Nina Nazarova (Russia) and Sviatoslav Khomenko (Ukraine) have collected in the pages of Stolen Childhood the stories of several separated Ukrainian families, and of one Russian family that took into its care a child from the self-proclaimed “DNR.” They also tell who organized the illegal deportation, and who has tried, and is still trying, to resist it. The Meduza publishing house is releasing this book together with the StraightForward Foundation, which helps Russian-speaking authors write uncensored nonfiction books and publish them in different countries.