
A young Ukrainian refugee, taken to Moscow by a Russian Emergency Ministry plane.
Valeria Lutkovskaya sent an open letter to the head of Russia's border guards, Colonel General Vladimir Kulishov, demanding the passage of orphans leaving eastern Ukrainian war zones be prohibited. She also published the letter on her Facebook page.
Lutkovskaya accused Russia of violating the rights of Ukrainian orphan children, who are being admitted to Russia "without proper paperwork."
She claimed that armed members of the resistance movement in the Donetsk region are forcing the directors of two orphanages "at gunpoint" to let children travel to Russia. The directors of both schools allegedly refused to prepare the proper documents.
Lutkovskaya said that according to her sources, plans were afoot to send 54 children from the Maryinka Educational Orphanage and 93 children from Educational Orphanage # 1 in Donetsk to Russia on Sunday morning.














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