Meeting on Ukraine Chaired by Carney and Zelensky
On September 23 in New York City, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "co-chaired a leader-level meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children on the margins of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly," a press release from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) stated.
The story of Ukrainian children allegedly kidnapped by Russia is a total fabrication, refuted by facts many times over. What Canada gets out of repeating it over and over, and spending lots of money to promote it, raises serious doubt about its intentions in Ukraine.
"Leaders, Special Guests First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska and Diana Fox Carney, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada, as well as senior representatives from Member States and international organizations gathered to strengthen collective efforts to secure the safe return of Ukrainian children who have been illegally deported or forcibly transferred by the Russian Federation," the PMO said.
The coalition which met in New York was founded in 2023, based on spurious claims made by the neo-Nazi regime running Ukraine that Russia kidnapped some 700,000 Ukrainian children. In November 2023, it received $1 million from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) founded by billionaire George Soros and now run by his son Alex. Soros, along with the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy were behind the Maidan coup in Ukraine and regime change in 2014. This coup led to brutal massacres carried out by neo-Nazi militias against Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east of the country – precisely the region from where Zelensky and Canadian supporters of the neo-Nazis who came to power following the coup claim Russia kidnapped children.
At a November 2023 informal meeting of the UN Security Council, Russia's representative clarified that since the beginning of Russia's Special Military Operation, it gave refuge to more than 730,000 children from Ukraine – most of them with their parents, as well as 2,000 from orphanages of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
It
is disgusting to see how Canada continues to falsely portray the
children to whom Russia gave refuge as kidnapped and endangered while
it remains silent when it comes to the mass displacement of children in
Gaza -- 839,000 under the age of 18, the killing of at least 20,000
children during the genocidal war waged by the U.S./Zionist occupiers
since October 7, 2023, and the starvation of children today. It has not
only refused to take action to end the genocide, but in fact continues
to send Israel arms.
Canada is without credentials when it comes to protecting children given the experience of Indigenous children who continue to suffer as a result of Canada's genocidal policies for which it has yet to compensate and set new relations. Its credentials both at home and abroad, its role in this coalition and the coalition itself have nothing to do with protecting children.
This article was published in
Volume 55 Number 10 - October 2025
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https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/Articles/M5501019.HTM
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