Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, health workers at a children's hospital in southern Ukraine started secretly planning how to save their babies.
俄罗斯 2 月入侵乌克兰数小时后，乌克兰南部一家儿童医院的医护人员开始秘密计划如何拯救他们的婴儿。
 
Russians were suspected of seizing young children without parents and sending them to Russia. Knowing this, the workers at the children's hospital in Kherson began to make up information on the medical records of orphan patients. The health workers wanted to make it appear that the children were too sick to go anywhere else.
俄罗斯人涉嫌绑架没有父母的幼儿并将他们送往俄罗斯。知道这一点后，赫尔松儿童医院的工作人员开始编造孤儿病历的信息。卫生工作者想让孩子们看起来病得很重，不能去其他地方。
 
"We were scared that (the Russians) would find out," said Dr. Olga Pilyarska, the head of intensive care. "(But) we decided that we would save the children at any cost."
“我们害怕（俄罗斯人）会发现，”重症监护室负责人奥尔加·皮利亚斯卡 (Olga Pilyarska) 博士说。 “（但）我们决定不惜一切代价拯救这些孩子。”
 
Throughout the war, Russia has been accused of sending Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held areas to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were taken from schools and orphanages in Kherson during Russia's eight-month occupation of the area, local officials say. The officials still do not know where those children are.
在整个战争期间，俄罗斯一直被指责将乌克兰儿童送往俄罗斯或俄罗斯控制区作为自己的孩子抚养。 .当地官员说，在俄罗斯占领该地区八个月期间，至少有 1,000 名儿童从赫尔松的学校和孤儿院被带走。官员们仍然不知道那些孩子在哪里。
 
Kherson residents say even more children would have gone missing if community members had not risked their lives to protect and hide as many children as they could.
赫尔松居民表示，如果社区成员没有冒着生命危险尽可能多地保护和藏匿儿童，将会有更多儿童失踪。
 
Volodymyr Sahaidak is director of a social and mental services center in a village just outside of Kherson city. He falsified paperwork to hide 52 orphans and at-risk children. The 61-year-old placed some of the children with seven of his employees. Others were taken to distant family members. Some of the older ones, he said, remained with him. "It seemed that if I did not hide my children they would simply be taken away from me," Sahaidak said.
Volodymyr Sahaidak 是一家社会和心理服务中心的主任赫尔松市郊外的村庄。他伪造文件以隐藏 52 名孤儿和处于危险中的儿童。这位 61 岁的老人将一些孩子安置在他的七名员工那里。其他人被带到远方的家庭成员那里。他说，一些年长的人留在了他身边。 “似乎如果我不藏起我的孩子，他们就会被从我身边带走，”萨海达克说。
 
Moving them was not easy. Russia seized Kherson and much of the area in March. The Russians started separating orphans at checkpoints along roads. Sahaidak was forced to get creative about how to transport the children. One time, he made up records that claimed a group of children had received treatment in the hospital and were being taken by their aunt to be reunited with their very pregnant mother. The story worked.
移动它们并不容易。俄罗斯在 3 月占领了赫尔松和大部分地区。俄国人开始在道路沿线的检查站将孤儿分开。 Sahaidak 被迫在如何运送孩子方面发挥创意。有一次，他编造了一些记录，声称一群孩子在医院接受了治疗，并被他们的阿姨带去与他们怀孕的母亲团聚。这个故事奏效了。
 
 
Not all children were as lucky. At the orphanage in Kherson, about 50 children were removed in October and reportedly taken to Russia-controlled Crimea. Reporters with The Associated Press confirmed the story with a security guard at the orphanage and people who live near the area.
并不是所有的孩子都这么幸运。在赫尔松的孤儿院，大约 50 名儿童在 10 月份被带走，据报道被带到了俄罗斯控制的克里米亚。美联社的记者向孤儿院的一名保安和住在该地区附近的人证实了这一故事。
 
Earlier this year, The Associated Press (AP) reported that Russia is trying to give thousands of Ukrainian children to Russian families, either temporarily or permanently. The AP reported that officials have sent Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held areas against their will. The officials lied to children and told them their parents did not want them.
今年早些时候，美联社报道称，俄罗斯正试图向数千名乌克兰儿童暂时或永久移居俄罗斯家庭。美联社报道称，官员们违背乌克兰儿童的意愿将其送往俄罗斯或俄罗斯控制区。官员们对孩子们撒谎，告诉他们他们的父母不想要他们。
 
The AP reporters found that Russian officials used the Ukrainian children for propaganda and gave them Russian families and Russian citizenship.
美联社记者发现，俄罗斯官员利用乌克兰儿童进行宣传，并给他们俄罗斯家庭和俄罗斯公民身份。
 
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington, D.C.-based group, says Russian officials are carrying out a depopulation campaign in occupied parts of Ukraine. The group says Russia is sending Ukrainian children to Russia under false claims of medical needs and adoption programs.
总部位于华盛顿特区的战争研究所表示，俄罗斯官员正在乌克兰被占领地区开展人口减少运动。该组织表示，俄罗斯以医疗需求和收养计划为由，将乌克兰儿童送往俄罗斯。
 
Russian officials have repeatedly said that moving children to Russia is meant to protect them from hostilities. The Russian Foreign Ministry has rejected claims that the country is seizing and deporting the children. It has noted that the officials are searching for the family members of parentless children left in Ukraine in order to send them home when possible.
俄罗斯官员一再表示，将儿童转移到俄罗斯是为了保护他们免受敌对行动。俄罗斯外交部否认了该国正在扣押和驱逐儿童的说法。它指出，官员们正在寻找留在乌克兰的无父母儿童的家人，以便在可能的情况下将他们送回家。
 
Russian children's rights representative Maria Lvova-Belova personally oversaw moving hundreds of orphans from Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine for adoption by Russian families. She has claimed that some of the children were offered the chance to return to Ukraine but refused to do so. Her statement could not be independently confirmed.
俄罗斯儿童权利代表 Maria Lvova-Belova 亲自监督将数百名孤儿从俄罗斯控制的乌克兰地区转移给俄罗斯家庭收养。她声称一些孩子有机会返回乌克兰，但拒绝这样做。她的说法无法得到独立证实。
 
Galina Lugova is head of Kherson's military administration. She said local and national security and law officials are looking for the children who were moved. But they still do not know what happened to them.
加林娜·卢戈娃 (Galina Lugova) 是赫尔松 (Kherson) 军事行政部门的负责人。她说地方和国家安全和法律官员正在寻找被转移的孩子。但他们仍然不知道发生了什么事。
 
"We do not know the fate of these children … we do not know where the children from orphanages or from our educational institutions are, and this is a problem," Lugova said.
Lugova 说：“我们不知道这些孩子的命运……我们不知道来自孤儿院或我们教育机构的孩子在哪里，这是一个问题。”
 
For now, Kherson locals are leading the effort to find the children and bring them home.
目前，赫尔松当地人正在带头寻找孩子并将他们带回家。