Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that the West and Kiev continue to cynically exploit the topic of rescuing Ukrainian children.
Thus she commented on the upcoming 11 April meeting of the international coalition on the return of Ukrainian children, RIA Novosti reports.
“They trumpet to the whole world the need to save Ukrainian children from the non-existent as if Russian danger, but at the same time they carefully hide the real problems Ukrainian families face in Europe,” the diplomat added.
Zakharova stressed that employees of European social services literally steal Ukrainian children under various pretexts, “forcibly taking them away from their alive and healthy parents”.
Earlier, Russia’s first deputy deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitriy Polyanskiy, said that Kiev did not help Ukrainian refugees to return the children seized in Europe.