Ukraine's missing children tracked down in Russia by digital sleuths - BBC News

Investigators say they have found eight children, believed to have been abducted by Russia.

22 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage source, SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFPImage caption, Ukraine estimates that 19,500 children have been deported or forcibly displaced to RussiaBy Anna Holligan in The Hague & Diana KuryshkoBBC Ukraine correspondentAn international team of investigators say they have tracked down eight Ukrainian children, believed to have been abducted during Russia's invasion.

More than 60 detectives used digital open source techniques to trace the missing children who are understood to have appeared in Russian propaganda.

Experts from 23 countries joined forces at Europol's headquarters in The Hague.

They used advanced facial recognition to find recent images of the children online.

As investigators are unable to travel to Russia or Belarus, geolocation experts analysed photos and videos and used satellite data to determine where they were taken.

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