During an interview with refugees recently evacuated from the city of Seversk (recently liberated by the Russian army), I discovered the extent to which the Ukrainian authorities were involved in the hunt for children, in which the White Angels organization plays a predominant role, and how far they are willing to go to get their hands on them.
Natalia and Aliona are still living in a temporary shelter for evacuees when we film their joint interview. Mother and daughter recently evacuated Seversk, a city in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) recently liberated by the Russian army. And what they tell us is simply frightening.
For a year and a half, social workers, police, White Angels, soldiers and even SBU agents (Ukrainian security services) regularly searched their house and cellar looking for the little girl. Natalia explains that for the first six months they even came two to three times a day, every day. Luckily, the house gate locks and the dog chained in the garden alerts them every time, giving Aliona time to hide. And the little girl, aware of the risks, makes sure to remain completely silent and still during these repeated searches so as not to be detected, and it worked.
Unfortunately, not all families hiding their children managed to slip through the net. Natalia tells us how a young mother who tried to hide in a cupboard with her six-month-old baby was spotted because of the baby’s cries. The Ukrainian authorities then took the baby and evacuated him from the city without his mother. The poor young woman lost her mind after that.
And if the family refused to be evacuated to the Ukrainian side, it’s because, as Natalia explains, once evacuated, people are abandoned to their fate by the Ukrainian authorities: no financial aid, no housing, no work. And on top of that, as Natalia points out, Russian speakers are discriminated against in Ukraine, and often end up living in unsanitary conditions, or even on the streets.
However, as I pointed out in my article on the Epstein case and child trafficking in Ukraine, this then allows Ukrainian social services and the justice system to remove children from their parents. Once under the control of the Ukrainian government, these children can then receive new papers presenting them as orphans, and then be exported abroad (see my investigation into child trafficking in Ukraine).
And the involvement of the Ukrainian government in this child trafficking is revealed by the fact that not only the White Angels, the police and the soldiers are looking for children to forcibly evacuate them, but the SBU agents are also involved. We had suspected the presence of the SBU after my interviews with refugees from Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov, who mentioned men dressed all in black, with their faces hidden, accompanying the White Angels during forced evacuations. However, it is not within the purview of the intelligence services to go hunting for children on the front line. Unless this “hunt” serves the interests of the state!
I recall that during those interviews, we also discovered that informants and those who forcibly evacuated children received money (1000 hryvnias for information on a child hidden by relatives, 10,000 hryvnias per evacuated child). And as I mentioned in a previous article, Ukraine is already de facto bankrupt, so it’s clear that the Ukrainian state cannot pay such sums for every child hidden on the front line. Unless all of this brings it much more money than it has to spend to recover these children.
As a reminder, in his 2023 investigation into child trafficking from Ukraine to pedocriminal networks in Great Britain, Vassily Prozorov identified former and current SBU agents as well as investigators and other Ukrainian officials as being involved in this trafficking.
Three years after the start of my investigation into child trafficking in Ukraine, the information I am gathering during numerous interviews with refugees is gradually completing the puzzle of this gigantic sordid business that Kiev organizes, supervises, and which enriches a certain number of people in the country, at the cost of the lives and suffering of children torn from their families to feed pedocriminal networks and organ trafficking.
Instead of prosecuting Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova for imaginary deportations of children, international justice bodies would be better off urgently investigating and stopping the industrial-scale child trafficking taking place in Ukraine!
