Because children lie when their elders expect them to lie. It's hardly the most difficult kind of coercion.
You're speculating. There is enough evidence for the kidnapping of children by Russia that actual jurists have charged Putin. Secondly children may lie, but adults lie too. Russians lie as well. If Ukrainians lie, so can the Russians. Ukrainian children were taken to Russia though. That's not a lie.
You lot have even said the following "people under Russian occupation agree with Russians because of it".... why would the same not be true for Ukraine even more so with children?
Nonsense, your bar for evidence is merely exceptionally low. Give actual proper evidence and it will be considered. All you ever give is tabloid reporting with no granularity or long opinion pieces that weigh heavily on emotionalism... all you ever give is propaganda.
What do you mean bar for evidence is low. It's acceptable for the ICC. What are your credentials?
Both sides have a history of faking atrocities of the other side.... and doing atrocities themselves.
I'm sorry but only ONE SIDE invaded the other side. Only one side (Russia) is murdering the civilians of the other side (Ukraine). Russians in Russia are not attacked.
If Ukraine never engaged in obvious deception to bolster foreign support I would believe their claims easier, now it's merely a case of he said she said a lot of the time because the same bombings have literally been blamed on both sides at the same time for example.
Russians have always lied. We in Europe have always known them to lie. It's the Russian way. You are just a guy in SA who simply does not know Russians.
