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Qatar on Monday said it had brokered a deal to reunite four Ukrainian children with their families after they were taken to Russia during Moscow’s invasion of the country, a diplomatic breakthrough covering one of the most sensitive issues of the war that has seen thousands of children taken from their homes and led to war crime charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
While many children went to Russia with family or became stuck as war broke out, Ukraine claims these children were taken forcibly by Russian troops and placed with Russian families or in care homes. Kyiv says the Kremlin is guilty of genocide and said the abductions are an attempt to erase the Ukrainian identity.
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