One of the sides of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is the stolen Ukrainian children, says former boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko in an interview with SWR2. in the book “Stolen Lives. “The Abducted Children of Ukraine” he tells the moving fates of 20 children together with the author Tatjana Kiel.
Abduction of Ukrainian children since 2014
Russia has developed new methods to carry out the genocide against Ukrainians, explains Klitschko. One of them is to tell young people and children: “Your parents don’t want you” and that the Western world is evil.
Russia claims to have brought 700,000 children to safety. “We have been able to identify 20,000 so far,” says Klitschko, but the actual number is probably significantly higher, probably in the hundreds of thousands. “There have been a lot of cases since 2014,” he emphasizes, because “the war didn’t start last year,” but since Russia attacked eastern Ukraine nine years ago.
Unforgotten stories of the abducted children of Ukraine: The new book by Wladimir Klitschko and Tatjana Kiel
Heyne Publishing
Stolen Lives The abducted children of Ukraine
Author: Wladimir Klitschko, Tatjana Kiel Genre: Non-fiction Publisher: Heyne Publication date: September 20, 2023 ISBN: 978-3-453-21868-0
20 children tell about their fate
The book by Waldimir Klitschko and Tatjana Kiel lets the children tell their own story. These are children who were able to be brought back to Ukraine. “It’s not a nice book,” says Klitschko, because “it’s the children’s true stories.” Most children themselves tell what happened to them after the Russian capture.
The aim of her book is to draw attention to the fate of children, says Klitschko. All proceeds from sales will be donated to the #WeAreAllUkrainians initiative to raise awareness and “to save more lives,” said Klitschko.
2023-09-20 16:56:44
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