Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children
Journal: Nations and Nationalism
Year: 2025

ABSTRACT Following the Russian Federation's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories and transferred to Russia. On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court officially recognized these actions as a war crime. Based on extensive documentary research as well as visual materials, this article argues that the Russian Federation is executing a systematic policy of child abduction. Frame analysis is use