Moscow plans to rely not on its own citizens but on the population of occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions to develop Siberia, because Russians are not eager to go to these depressing regions. In this way, Russia aims to build a new "industrial empire" using Ukrainians' labor.

 

According to the Center, Moscow has already launched the first stage of this mechanism. Official letters have been sent to local administrations, schools, hospitals and utility companies requesting they "identify employees for possible long-term secondments to the Far East and the Angaro–Yenisei macro-region."

 

Managers are now required to submit lists of "employees without family obligations," who would be easiest to deport without causing public outcry.

The Center noted that this mechanism closely mirrors Soviet practices when Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians from Western Ukraine, Chechens, and other peoples were deported.

 

Russia plans to deport Ukrainians from occupied regions to Siberia

 

No wonder so few wish to live under Putin's rule

 

Atrocious but not at all surprising. 

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LOL

Family members of Ukrainian children deported from Kherson by Russia made a rare public appeal for their return on Monday in Paris. Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Moscow has deported Ukrainian children into Russia, often sending older children to re-education camps and putting younger children up for adoption.

 

“I am a grandmother,” 55-year-old Liubov Burina says, her voice shaking with emotion, before she has to take a moment to calm her nerves.  The former seamstress has not seen her grandchildren, Angelina and Yevhen, since March 2022. Due to a family crisis, the three-year-old and one-year-old had been placed in a Kherson orphanage overnight when Russian forces invaded the Ukrainian city.  

 

In the morning, when Burina went to collect the children, they were gone.

“We were looking for them everywhere. We contacted every institution, the police and social services,” she says. “Then an organisation found that they had been moved to occupied Crimea.”  

 

 

‘Their rights are being violated’: Ukrainian families call for return of their stolen children

 

The children were en route to being deported to Russia and had been listed on one of the country's adoption databases under new identities.

Liubov Burina and Darina Riepina, family members of Ukrainian children deported by Russia, in Paris on November 17, 2025, at a press conference organised by the Emile Foundation.© Bahar Makooi

 

Well, Siberia is much better than gifts from Western countries constantly falling from the sky.

On 11/19/2025 at 4:06 PM, bannork said:

Family members of Ukrainian children deported from Kherson by Russia made a rare public appeal for their return on Monday in Paris. Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Moscow has deported Ukrainian children into Russia, often sending older children to re-education camps and putting younger children up for adoption.

 

“I am a grandmother,” 55-year-old Liubov Burina says, her voice shaking with emotion, before she has to take a moment to calm her nerves.  The former seamstress has not seen her grandchildren, Angelina and Yevhen, since March 2022. Due to a family crisis, the three-year-old and one-year-old had been placed in a Kherson orphanage overnight when Russian forces invaded the Ukrainian city.  

 

In the morning, when Burina went to collect the children, they were gone.

“We were looking for them everywhere. We contacted every institution, the police and social services,” she says. “Then an organisation found that they had been moved to occupied Crimea.”  

 

 

‘Their rights are being violated’: Ukrainian families call for return of their stolen children

 

The children were en route to being deported to Russia and had been listed on one of the country's adoption databases under new identities.

Liubov Burina and Darina Riepina, family members of Ukrainian children deported by Russia, in Paris on November 17, 2025, at a press conference organised by the Emile Foundation.© Bahar Makooi

 

 

 

I don't understand how there has not been a huge, worldwide outcry over this abduction of Ukrainian children?

 

This should be condemned by every single politician, the EU, the media every single day.