Thank you. That's a critical question.
There are three baskets of consent scenarios.
The first is outright abduction. An example of those children is Anna. She was used as propaganda, along with about 11 or 12 other children, in a Defender of the Fatherland Day rally in Moscow. Those children were taken directly from the battlefield after Anna's mother was killed by an artillery shell. It was what can only be described as a straight-up abduction.
In the second basket, there has been consent or a theatre of consent. We have seen some of the power of attorney forms that parents who have “willingly” signed their children over were forced to sign. In one of the power of attorney consent forms we found, the party issuing that form was left blank, meaning those forms cannot be considered meaningful in any way.
In the third consent basket, as was alluded to before, there is direct pressure or duress put on the parents. In some cases—