Ukrainian parents start writing on children’s bodies to protect them amid Russian invasion

As the battle deepens, terrified Ukrainian parents, fearful of being murdered by invading Russian soldiers, have begun writing family information on their children’s bodies.

Anastasiia Lapatina, a Ukrainian journalist, took to Twitter to publish a photograph credited to an artist from war-torn Ukraine, revealing that parents are writing their personal data on the bodies of their children, fearing all possible and implausible scenarios.

“Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they are killed and the child survives,” stated Anastasiia Lapatina of the Kyiv Independent.

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Despite the horrors of war that millions of Ukrainians face, she continued, “Europe is still discussing gas,” alluding to the EU’s decision to impose sanctions on Russian goods and services but not on oil and gas exports.

Earlier in the day, hundreds of civilians were discovered dead on the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, near their homes, and in mass graves. Kyiv implicated Moscow in the Bucha massacre; however, the Russians refuted the accusations, claiming that they were the result of Western propaganda.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky also paid a visit to Bucha on Monday.

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“Every day, when our fighters enter and retake territory, you see what’s been happening,” Zelensky, wearing a bullet-proof vest and escorted by military officials, told reporters in the village ravaged by combat.

International leaders would consider the killings of dozens of residents in a village near Kyiv recovered from Russian forces to be “genocide,” Zelensky said. “These are war crimes and it will be recognised by the world as genocide,” he added.

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The Bucha massacre in Ukraine drew harsh condemnation from Canada’s House of Commons on Monday. The House passed a motion after reports of Russian crimes arose in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, where heaps of dead corpses were discovered after Putin’s soldiers withdrew.

“In light of the horrific and appalling reports received from the city of Bucha, the House condemn in the strongest terms possible the crimes against humanity and war crimes perpetrated by Vladimir Putin, the Russian military and Russian-backed forces,” Canadian lawmakers declared.