For seven months the Calvary Baptist Church in Kherson was home to 46 Ukrainian babies and toddlers, all orphans, until the Russians took them away.

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Ukraine Invasion

Russians abduct dozens of toddlers in Kherson

On a floor, in the basement of the Calvary, Baptist Church in Harrison empty mattresses and a room. Full of cushions used as makeshift beds for seven long months. This was home to 4060 Cranium babies and toddlers until the Russians took them away. All of them were orphans Harrison was the first major city to fall to the Invaders. A local orphanage on the children from four months to four years old was dangerously close to the fighting your battles, explosions and helicopters and planes. Flying overhead. Says the church. Pastor the deer causing it, but even more terrifying, the Russians started hunting for children. So they will finish Spirited Away, the young children under their care and hid them here in the basements of causing. This is church my finger in his hands, the conditions were Spartan but they were safe and the children cared for Protected or so they thought then one day the Russians came for the children, first forcing them back to the orphanage and then abducting them back from Ukraine's, Army causing. It says so they look at the children on the buses and drove them in a column with grad, rocket launchers. Using two children as human Shields. I'm in the daily reports of the horrors of war. The abduction barely made a ripple on telegram. The governor of Harrison oblast posted that, the Russians took the children to Crimea and pleaded for their return will ukrainians illegally detained by the Russians, must return to Ukrainian territory as soon as possible. The governor said we met some of them via video conference last spring, Looking for some have been taken, others had managed to hide in people's houses until the day of Liberation, but they're the lucky ones more than 8,000 children have been removed by the washer, the forced removal of Ukrainian children to. Russia is one of the most emotionally charged with war crimes, that the Russians are accused of Russia, cousin, zelensky sang Ukraine, will not be conquered. Our people will not surrender, and our children will not become the property of the occupiers warning, that any peaceful resolution of the war will hinge on their safe return. For now, you bring the only document this war, but there are so many children have disappeared and no one has come yet to investigate the number of suspected war crimes is so, overwhelming chance. Just wonder what are they feeling? What are they thinking? Right now I know you also mentioned another group of Orphans who you introduces back, you all the way in, March you've been following their stories, some of them were captured, what else? That's right. Well, we spent the day with the director of The Orphanage. As you mentioned, we spoke to back in the spring and I wouldn't following them throughout the war. He told us just a harrowing story of some orphans, being abducted to Crimea and others who have been in hiding until just a few days ago. Chance.

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