Daria Kasyanova

Daria Kasyanova is the chair of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network, an organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and repatriation of Ukrainian children abducted during the ongoing conflict with Russia. She has firsthand experience with child abductions during the earlier stages of the conflict, having worked to evacuate thousands of individuals, including children, from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014. Kasyanova highlights the dangers faced by children caught in the conflict, emphasizing the risk of them being lost to Russia's adoption system and the severe implications of their forced deportation on their identities and futures.