Identity as Warfare: Deportation, Re-Education, and Russia’s Systemic Campaign Against Ukrainian National Identity
By John F. Kerins, JD Candidate, American University Washington College of Law ’26 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian children have been separated from their parents, transferred across borders, and placed in sites controlled by Russian or occupation authorities.[1] These transfers are not a by-product of wartime chaos, nor an attempt to evacuate […]