The founder of the Save Ukraine charitable organisation, Mykola Kuleba, said in an interview with online.ua that Ukraine should have aggressive enough communication to convince the world that Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children is genocide.
Ukraine must convince the world that Russia is committing genocide
I see how the state is currently increasing these communication efforts, but unfortunately it is not enough. This is not the level of communication that will convince the international community that this is actually genocide.
According to Mykola Kuleba, Ukraine should promote the issue of kidnapped children more.
But today we need these communications in the international arena to prove the genocide, to show that these are Ukrainian people, and we want them back. We need finances, weapons, and everything in order to win back our children from the enemy. And until every child is returned to Ukrainian land, we must not stop.
How Ukraine should communicate about the children abducted by Russia
Kuleba recalls how he spoke with some UN representatives last year who deal with the issues or problems of the disappearance of certain species of butterflies in different countries.
And you know, when I heard that, it just tore me up inside. I respect their efforts to save butterflies. But I cannot put the destruction of Ukrainian children and the disappearance of butterflies in some country on the same scale.
According to the founder of Save Ukraine, Ukrainian communication should be based on the fact that "we will think together about butterflies, but first we should think about those Ukrainian children who are being destroyed today."
Today, we are very weak in the information field of these countries due to other reasons. I will not analyse them now. But it should be quite aggressive communication. Because every family, even in Europe, America or China, understands the problem of children, because almost every family has a child. And they need to explain how it would be in relation to their children.
At the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Kuleba spoke in the US Congress, where he asked the members of Congress to imagine that there were Russians in the suburbs of Washington, killing their children.
And they want to enter Washington, your administrative capital, in order to destroy you and your children. And in the captured territories, they turn your children into Russian ones. What will be your reaction to this? So help us! Please accept this as your own grief.
Kuleba is convinced that Ukraine must touch every heart, and for this, it needs institutions that will deal with this issue and be empowered to develop strategies to reach out to the international community and for it to work.
