Jason Straziuso a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, encouraged the families to register their children as missing. They are following the Russian school curriculum. Most families speak periodically to their children using some of the satellite internet hotspots that the Ukrainian government has set up, but it’s difficult for the younger ones, said the father of the 9-year-old.Īs far as they can tell, the children are basically fine, their needs provided for. But phone service has been down for six months in Izium and communications are hit-or-miss. The families who gathered Wednesday wrote out a list of their names and contact information. The local Kuban 24 news site, citing the regional governor Venyamin Kondratyev, said a total of 323 children were at the two sites. We could never afford a seaside holiday for our children and we saw this as a chance,” said one Izium father who has a 9-year-old child among the group. They are afraid they are seen as collaborators, willing participants in handing their children over to the enemy. Desperate, angry and almost crazed with worry, they say they need more help to retrieve their kids. The shifting front lines changed everything.Ībout two dozen parents gathered Wednesday outside a closed café in Izium overlooking one of the town’s countless bombed out buildings.
Kolesnyk said she had sent her elder daughter to a camp in July and the girl returned home with no complications. That doesn’t seem to have been the initial expectation. “The problem is that the Russian side does not plan to return the children to us.” “Our main goal was to give the children a break from everything that was happening here, from all the horrors that were here,” said Valeriya Kolesnyk, an Izium teacher whose 9-year-old is now in Russia.
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