Thank you.
I met you several times in Canada. I thank you for your position and for the position of the parliamentarians who are standing with us and fighting for Ukraine. It is very important to us.
As you know, Maria Lvova-Belova, Putin's commissioner, reported that they've registered more than 700,000 Ukrainian children in Russia. We have no idea how many of them are unaccompanied. We have no idea how many of them are orphans—children who have lost their parents because they were killed by Russians—or received Russian passports or were placed in Russian families or orphanages.
These are our kids. They are Ukrainian children. Many of them cannot sleep and are dreaming about escape. I can tell you a story about a 12-year-old boy who escaped. We returned him. He told me he dreamed of escape, and he planned every night to escape. He would cross the minefields on the front line. Can you imagine a 12-year-old child planning to cross minefields?
We understand the Russian aggressor. It's very hard to win this battle, but we will win. First of all, however, we need you to put pressure on Russia to give us information about all the Ukrainian children who have been deported and who now live in Russia. We want to know what happened to them. We cannot live normally when we have no idea what happened to them.
How many of them want to come back to Ukraine? We understand that after brainwashing, many of them received Russian passports and may want to stay there with their new relatives, but there are thousands of orphans who have been deported. There are thousands of Ukrainian children dreaming of coming back, but we don't know. We have no information. That's why we at Save Ukraine are searching for any information.
We built an underground railroad to return children. We returned 200 children, but that's just a little. It's a drop. It's a sample. We need more. You can help us do this, but it is [Technical difficulty—Editor].