A fence featuring 20,000 stuffed teddy bears, each representing a Ukrainian child abducted by Russia, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2026.

(TEMPE, AZ) “Crimes against humanity.”

That’s what an investigation in March 2026 called Russia’s “deportation and forcible transfer” of Ukrainian children and “their enforced disappearance.”

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