this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
363 points (100.0% liked)

World News

476 readers
589 users here now

Please help and contribute as we vote on rules:
https://quokk.au/post/21590

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Always nice to pop into these posts to see what (new) users I need to add to the block list.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago

they used filtration camps to obfuscate the kidnapped children so its harder to track them down, they give them false identity and put them up for adoption, or in an orphanage.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s not at all suspicious that the two accounts defending RU here are brand new…

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 23 hours ago

Please report that shit in the future so I can remove it sooner.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Those poor kids!

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Child trafficking with some eugenics sprinkled in.

Really fucked up, and this is what we know during the war, imagine what could come out after.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] npdean@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Brought to you by the unbiased news source - kyivindependent.com

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (12 children)

"Brought to you by the unbiased news source – kyivindependent.com"

This kind of snarky dismissal is a textbook example of the genetic fallacy. It's rejecting an argument or claim solely because of its source, rather than engaging with the content, the evidence, or the reasoning behind it.

Yes, The Kyiv Independent is Ukrainian, and yes, it likely carries national bias. Just like literally every national outlet does during wartime. That doesn’t automatically invalidate every fact it reports, especially when those facts are supported by third-party evidence and international bodies.

In this article, for example, the claim about the child adoption "catalog" is backed by:

Screenshots from Russian occupation websites, figures from Save Ukraine ( a long-standing NGO) and references to internationally verified abductions; numbers confirmed by Ukraine's ombudsman, the ICC’s arrest warrants, and other human rights organizations)

So even if you don’t like the outlet, you're still responsible for engaging with the facts, not just rolling your eyes and calling it propaganda.

Dismissing credible, corroborated claims with a one-liner is lazy and cowardly. If you're going to talk about war crimes and mass abductions, do better than a meme-level deflection and actually engage the facts. This isn’t some Internet drama without consequences; it’s the systematic erasure of children.

load more comments (12 replies)
[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Here's another older source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-kidnapping-evidence-b2717730.html

Children from Eastern Europe have been considered prime trafficking victims for several decades now. They are usually white and easily accessible, often sitting out on the streets.

Here's a documentary about Romanian street children: https://youtu.be/HDiIrdzFGCY

Here's Robert Maxwell trafficking them: https://www.nli.org.il/he/images/%20nnl_archive_al990040300950205171/NLI#$FL45875197

There is substantial evidence that torture, snuff, rape, bestiality, and CSAM materials coming from Russia are made by Putin's request and put out by his request to accrue blackmail on the people who view them online. A large part of what many world leaders want today are just straight up children and babies as a commodity.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›