A playground with children's toys and flowers laid as a memorial, set against a backdrop of damaged apartment buildings with boarded windows.

Daughters of the Donbas group creates music remembering abducted Ukrainian children

From our partners at DW, Breandáin O’Shea reports on a Ukrainian musical group that seeks to give voice to the numerous children abducted by Russia from occupied Ukrainian territories.

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Toys and floral tributes left in a playground on a site of Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 7, 2025.

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“Daughters of Donbas: Songs of Stolen Children” is a Ukrainian musical group that seeks to give voice to the roughly 20,000 children that Russia has abducted from occupied Ukrainian territories.

The project is led by a Ukrainian-Canadian singer and a young flutist who was rescued from abduction.

From our partners at Deutsche Welle, DW, Arts Journalist Breandáin O’Shea reports.

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