Advocates Plead for Help Rescuing Ukrainian Children Abducted to Russia

FILE — In this photo taken in Moscow, Russia, a Ukrainian boy repatriated from Russia to Ukraine sits next to his grandmother, left, and Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, Oct. 13, 2023. (Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via Reuters)

"The military came to my house in Kherson and said that they were taking me to a children's camp in Crimea," explained 18-year-old Denys Berezhnyi, addressing U.S. lawmakers in Washington last month. His parents are deaf and mute, he said, and couldn't argue with the Russian soldiers.