INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia and Ukraine have for the first time held in-person talks to exchange children displaced by the war, Moscow's children's rights
they had come from.Lvova-Belova and President Vladimir Putin are wanted by the International Criminal Court over Moscow's transfers of
Ukrainian children into Russia, which are considered a war crime
forced to move to Russia since Moscow invaded in February 2022, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a
when the front line was constantly shifting, according to RIA Novosti.The fate of the children has been highly sensitive in Ukraine since
the war began two years ago.Some of the children's parents were killed, while others were separated from carers by the fast-moving front
lines at the start of the invasion.Some were living in Ukrainian orphanages in areas Russia then occupied.Ukraine says Moscow's forces
illegally deported them to Russia, and accuses the Russian authorities of trying to wipe out their Ukrainian identity.Teenagers that
returned to Ukraine have said they were subjected to Russian patriotic education and made to praise the Russian army.AFP contributed
