WARSAW -- Thousands of Ukrainian children are feared to have been forcibly taken to Russia and gone missing, as there have been a number of cases reported in which children have not returned to their homes after taking part in Russia-organized camps and rehabilitation programs.
Such cases have been reported in the four eastern and southern regions of Ukraine which Russia unilaterally annexed at the end of September.
A female pharmacist, 41, in Enerhodar, in southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, told The Yomiuri Shimbun that her 10- and 12-year-old sons still have not returned home about a month after taking part in a summer camp in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia in October.