Washington, DC (RI) — While President Trump met in recent days with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine seeking a ceasefire, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says one key element in the long-running war demands more discussion. Grassley says Russian President Vladimir Putin has been ordering Ukrainian children captured and transported to holding facilities in Russia — for years.
Grassley is appealing for international attention to what he calls “Putin’s outrageous abduction of Ukrainian children.”
Reports say only about 1500 children who were either deported or forcibly displaced by Russian forces have been returned to Ukraine since the war started in 2022.
During their Oval Office meeting on Monday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky gave President Trump a letter of gratitude from Ukraine’s First Lady that was addressed to the United States’ First Lady, who wrote her own letter.
Grassley says the war has lasted three-and-a-half years and is now the largest war in Europe since World War Two, causing the deaths of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
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