Over 200,000 missing Ukrainian children. This is ethnic cleansing and a war crime. The Russian kidnapping of children must be stopped. Zelensky says 200,000 Ukrainian children are missing since Russia's invasion https://www.cnn.com/webview/europe/...s-07-06-23/h_84eee6b072922061622421af76eaddda About 200,000 Ukrainian children are missing due to Russia's full-scale invasion, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Just imagine, we don't know where 200,000 children are now,” Zelensky said during a press conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Thursday. “Some of them are deported, some are in the occupied territories, and we don't know who is alive,” he continued. Some context: Moscow has been accused of forcibly and unlawfully transferring Ukrainian children from occupied territories to Russia. In March, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova Belova for their responsibility in the alleged forced deportations. The Russian government doesn’t deny taking Ukrainian children and has made their adoption by Russian families a centerpiece of propaganda. Some of the children have ended up thousands of miles and several time zones away from Ukraine. According to Lvova-Belova’s office, Ukrainian kids have been sent to live in institutions and with foster families in 19 different Russian regions, including Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tyumen regions in Siberia and Murmansk in the Arctic. Lvova-Belova dismissed the ICC’s arrest warrant against her, saying it was “great” that the international community appreciated her work for children, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
Putin gets orders from his master. Xi tells Putin – do NOT nuke Ukraine: Chinese president told Vladimir to his face not to use nuclear missiles… in sign Beijing fears Russian escalation Beijing in recent years has made moves to strengthen its bond with the Kremlin But Chinese officials said to be intent on ending Putin's nuclear sabre-rattling https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12265747/Xi-tells-Putin-NOT-nuke-Ukraine.html
“For more than six months, President Biden and his aides have been wrestling with one of the most vexing questions in the war in Ukraine: whether to risk letting Ukrainian forces run out of the artillery rounds they desperately need to fight Russia, or agree to ship them cluster munitions — widely banned weapons known to cause grievous injury to civilians, especially children,” the New York Times reports. “On Thursday, Mr. Biden appeared on the verge of providing the cluster munitions to Ukraine, a step that would sharply separate him from many of his closest allies, who have signed an international treaty banning the use, stockpiling or transfer of such weapons. Washington Post: Biden approves cluster munition supply to Ukraine.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/7/7410272/ Even worst-case scenario at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant does not threaten population with radiation – ANS
Yes. Also, things have changed since Putin made his dumb move. Originally, Xi wanted to be buddy-buddy with Putin because he believed that Putin controlled all of Central Asia, and China wanted access to those regions for economic reasons. Now China sees that Putin no longer controls Central Asia and that China can work directly with the "stan" countries without having to deal with Putin. And he can still have Russia as a colony.