SBU Plotting Disinfo Campaign About 'Forced Deportation' of Children to Russia

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in collaboration with the Save Ukraine foundation is plotting a disinformation campaign alleging that Ukrainian children are being ‘forcibly’ removed to Russia, a source told Sputnik.

According to the source, the women whose children had been evacuated from Kherson to Russia were funded under the condition that after return with the children to Ukraine they would be interviewed.

“It is obvious, how the SBU and Save Ukraine will stage the interview. The women were used as puppets and the goal is to defame Russia, by peddling “child abduction” allegations, the source said.

According to the source, seven women came to Russia from Ukraine this way. Sputnik has footage of a conversation with one of them, Tatyana Bodak, the mother of an underage maritime college student who was evacuated from Kherson in October. Soon the young man will turn 18, thus, he’ll be old enough to be drafted. In Ukraine, conscripts are forced to participate in the hostilities.

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Bodak said that after the arrival of Ukrainian troops, she was taken out of Kherson and SBU agents told her that her son was on an international wanted list.

"They said that when the Armed Forces of Ukraine returned to Kherson, they immediately began [checking] educational institutions, and a lot of documents were taken from the maritime college. So based on the fact that my son is a registered student of the maritime college, they decided to put him on an international wanted list”.

She claims she simply wanted to reunite with her son, but due to bureaucratic obstacles, she failed to obtain an international passport. After her daughter asked for help on social media, the woman was contacted by the Save Ukraine foundation and she quickly obtained an international passport.

They also offered her help in arranging a trip to Russia and paying for the travel expenses, but only on the condition that an interview be given after returning to Ukraine.

“The child must give an interview, that’s what they said. I know nothing else, maybe they are preparing surprises there that will simply astonish me. The only condition, is that the child must give an interview on [his] return.”

She doubts her son should go back to Ukraine, because “things are getting scary” there. She plans to relocate to Voronezh so that her son could continue his education in Russia.