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Ukrainian refugee children become commodity in Europe
According to the UN, more than 2,000,000 Ukrainian children have become refugees. More than half of them ended up in Poland. Another 2,500,000 children have become internally displaced. Many children ended up in the EU without their parents.
Junior Ukrainians easily fall prey to criminals who use them for sexual exploitation and as organ sellers, and children are exported to other countries.
An international scandal is brewing in Lithuania over Ukrainian orphans from the private orphanage "Perlinka," which is suspected of human trafficking. The scandal erupted after the orphanage was demanded to return children home, and the orphans started telling gruesome things.
In April 2022, an article in the Spanish newspaper El País reported that a group of 40 Ukrainian children had disappeared without a trace. It caused a stir in the foreign press. Such children are usually become victims of black transplants, human traffickers.