the nordic-baltics are demanding that russia releases the kidnapped children.
>Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Iceland strongly urge Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, in a joint statement.

>- Experience has shown that Putin cannot be trusted. It is ultimately Russia's responsibility to stop its shameless violations of international law, the countries write.

>They state that negotiations on Europe's security and peace in Ukraine must take place with Ukraine - and Europe.

>And then they make the following demands:
>- We demand that Russia immediately return children who have been abducted from occupied areas, as well as prisoners of war and civilian prisoners, it reads.
>Thousands of Ukrainian children disappeared from, among other things, schools and daycare centers and were abducted to Russia.
>The Yale Human Research Lab states that over 19,000 children from Ukraine have been deported to Russia, but says at the same time that it is probably far more.
>The former Ukrainian foreign minister, and now head of the organization "Save Ukraine", Mykola Kuleba, states to the Washington Post that it is about up to 100,000 children.
>Russia itself has denied it.