French actor Jean Reno has written a book about Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
This is mentioned on the publisher’s website, and Reno himself spoke about it in an interview with Télé 7.
As the actor himself explains, he came up with the idea for the book when he heard on the news about the roughly 20,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia several years ago.
“I thought it was madness that these children had been taken away to be brainwashed. I’m not involved in politics; I wanted to turn this into a novel,” says Reno.
The book tells the story of Emma, a former masseuse who works for the French foreign intelligence service, the DGSE. Undercover, she travels to Siberia to infiltrate a Russian facility where abducted Ukrainian children are taken for detention and re-education, and to document the crimes.
The deportation of Ukrainian children: what is known
According to the Bring Kids Back platform, Russia has deported over 20,000 children from Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. 2,120 of them have been returned.
On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. They are suspected of illegally removing Ukrainian children from the occupied territories to Russia. And in July 2023, the Office of the Prosecutor General launched an investigation into the involvement of the Belarusian Red Cross in the deportation of Ukrainian children.
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