On the very day I was conducting this interview, Russian colleagues were interviewing a little girl from Artiomovsk, whom the "White Angels" had tried to kidnap from her grandparents, claiming that her mother was dead, and that they were to take her to Germany. It was clear to me that these children kidnapped by Ukraine in Donbass were then sent abroad for all sorts of sordid trafficking, from organ trafficking to paedophile rings. Because the inhabitants of Donbass have never been able to assert their rights in the face of the war crimes committed against them by Ukraine since 2014 within the international justice bodies, Kiev enjoys total immunity at the ICC and the ECHR with regard to the crimes it may commit against the children of the region.

A few days later, other refugees from Artiomovsk confirmed the child abductions, and I discovered that the same methods were being used in other towns such as Avdeyevka (and now similar information is coming in from Kupiansk).

The last refugee from Artiomovsk we interviewed, Katia, confirmed the abduction of children by the "White Angels", and explained that when the parents of abducted children called them to find out where they were, they claimed not to know anything about it.

Watch Katia's interview with French subtitles (we have blurred her face for the safety of her relatives still living in Ukraine):

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/children-fleeing-war-ukraine-heightened-risk-trafficking-and-exploitation

https://childhub.org/en/child-protection-news/ukraine-orphanages-feeder-child-trafficking?language=sq

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/24/vigilantes-stalk-ukraine-border-as-sex-traffickers-target-fleeing-women-and-children