A Russian woman whose son was killed while fighting for Russia against Ukraine is attempting to adopt a Ukrainian child who was abducted from an occupied region, The Kyiv Independent reported.
Olga Dorokhina, a native of Yelets in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, who moved to Crimea following its annexation by Russia, told the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne that she "found her daughter," a 4-year-old girl from Kherson Oblast, a region of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia.
According to Suspilne, Dorokhina's husband is a veteran of the Chechen war and a former employee of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service. Her son, Vladislav Dorokhin, joined the 810th Marine Brigade and fought in the invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine's national database of missing and abducted children shows that almost 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted from occupied regions and sent to Russia, Belarus, and other areas controlled by Russia since the start of the war.
"Russia's trafficking of Ukrainian children should leave no room for doubt: This invasion has nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with destroying the Ukrainian identity," Mykola Murskyj, Ukrainian nonprofit Razom for Ukraine's advocacy director, told The New York Post last month.
"Trafficking children goes against everything we stand for as America," Murskyj added. "We cannot and must not falter in our fight against evil."
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