'Putin has STOLEN our Ukrainian children': Distraught parents tell how THOUSANDS of youngsters never return

 'Putin has STOLEN our Ukrainian children': Distraught parents tell how THOUSANDS of youngsters never returned from 'summer camps' they went to after being rounded up by Russian troops in 'campaign' likened to ISIS abduction of Yazidi girls

• Ukraine says it has confirmed that more than 16,000 children have been taken
• Parents have being tricked into allowing their children to attend 'summer camps'
  
  
  

• Ukrainian parents have shared their heartbreak at not knowing where their children are or if they will ever see them again after Russian forces kidnapped thousands of youngsters and transported them to 're-education camps' in Russia - in a policy likened to abductions carried out by terror group ISIS.

  A study by Yale University last month found more than 6,000 children aged between four months and 17 years have been taken to 43 camps across Russia, including in Moscow-annexed Crimea and Siberia, for 'pro-Russia patriotic and military-related education'. It is thought the true number is far higher.

  

  Russia has tried to cast the relocation of the children as saving orphans or bringing them to camps for medical care - but Ukrainians say children are either being abducted outright or their parents are pressured or tricked into giving them up.  

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