Special envoy to Riga
“They didn't even let me say goodbye to him
,” Sashko said.
His clear gaze is lost for a moment in the gray sky of the city of Riga, which is offered to him from the top of the Latvian National Library, and his hands begin to rotate restlessly over each other.
“I don’t know where my mom is, she has disappeared,”
he insists, returning to this terrible turning point in March 2022 when, taken to a Russian army filtration camp, the mother and son were brutally separated, in violation of the laws of the Geneva Convention on the Law of War.
We meet a few days ago, when Oleksandr Radchuk, known as “Sashko”, 13 years old, is in the Latvian capital to participate in an international conference devoted to the painful and explosive issue of children displaced or forcibly transferred to Russia and in the occupied Russian territories.
During this event co-organized by the Latvian and Ukrainian governments, Sashko and eight other companions…
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