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“Dad, You Have to Come—Or We Will Be Adopted!”: One Ukrainian Family’s Harrowing Wartime Saga

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Iryna Lopatina

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Three children survived the siege of Mariupol, forced relocation, their father’s horrific detainment, and their own exile—to Russia.

“Dad, You Have to Come—Or We Will Be Adopted!”: One Ukrainian Family’s Harrowing Wartime Saga

Three children survived the siege of Mariupol, forced relocation, their father’s horrific detainment, and their own exile—to Russia.


This media project was created for Vanity Fair. A later version in Ukrainian was published on Ukrainska Pravda.


Iryna Lopatina is a TRP Researcher.

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