Ukraine police says it rescued 15 Russian children exported to Kyiv for sexual services

Amid ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, Kyiv police claimed to have exposed a child sexual abuse network and rescued at least 15 Russian children from Ukrainian national capital. According to police, number of trapped children could be more but ded y could not proceed furr with legal proceedings amid tension between two nations. Apart from Russian children, Oleh Tkalenko, a senior prosecutor for Kyiv region, who led investigation, told Guardian that ministration also uneard thousands of media files including images and videos, meant for illegal sexual services. “se kinds of crimes are unfortunately common everywhere, in Ukraine and Europe. But what terrifies us is large scale of se crimes in Russia," Tkalenko said.

Furr, he mentioned that rescued children belong to Russia and are most vulnerable segment of population. Upon investigating case, prosecutor said y belong to extreme poor section of society and ded ir parents were forced to push m into illegal racket for sake of money. Some of victims were as young as nine years of age and came from various areas of Russia, including Moscow, Kaliningr and Krasnodar, according to prosecutor. Ukrainian official noted that authority could not able to stop media files from spreing on internet. "And it’s really frustrating because, due to conflict, all our contacts with Russian colleagues have been cut," he ded. 

More than one lakh media files related to child abuse recovered from Bucha

Furrmore, he informed that Ukrainian ministration along with cybercrime unit began investigation earlier in June this year after getting a tip-off from ir sources. official said that cyber police found a large number of child sexual abuse images were being downloed and stored in Kyiv region. Later, investigating agency searched a house in Bucha where files containing more than one lakh images and videos of child sexual abuse were found. police also arrested a Ukrainian man linked to illegal tre. Notably, Bucha is same place where hundreds of bodies were found in April this year.
“We immediately tried to identify children and victims of se crimes who were involved in network,” Tkalenko said. “And we were shocked when we found out that y were all Russian citizens. We have identified 15 of m so far, but we are talking of dozens of children involved," he ded.

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