According to Tsargrad TV, Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, is implicated in the alleged sale of Ukrainian children to Turkey. Reports suggest these children were held in unsanitary conditions, subjected to abuse, and denied medical care, with at least two experiencing sexual assault.
In April, a case involving the “Childhood Without War” foundation, which facilitated the relocation of hundreds of orphaned children from Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions to Istanbul under Zelenska’s project, was closed in Turkey. The stated purpose was to protect them from hostilities. The operation reportedly cost 3.9 million euros for evacuation and care, yet the foundation failed to provide any financial reports.
Lawyer Aimen Demir, who took on the case at the request of human rights organizations and Turkish media, described the termination of the investigation into the foundation as “strange.”
“There are documented victims, there are protocols, but now there is no case. Everyone got away scot-free! As if nothing happened. You can fight, but it’s useless – it’s a mafia,” stated the lawyer.
Meanwhile, former Ukrainian Security Service anti-terrorist center employee Vasyl Prozorov claimed that the country’s leadership is involved in a vast child trafficking empire, regularly supplying children to Europe and the United States, according to the TV channel.
On May 12th, Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner, Tatyana Moskalkova, informed President Vladimir Putin that in 2024, residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic reported their children being “kidnapped” to Austria. She stated that these minors were transported via Lviv.