Ukrainian Teen Describes Being Taken & Held by Russia | Children of Ukraine | FRONTLINE
Artem Hutorov is among the Ukrainian teens who share their experiences of being taken & held in Russian-controlled territory in the new FRONTLINE documentary "Children of Ukraine."
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Artem Hutorov was 15 years old when a convoy of Russian soldiers and minibuses pulled up to his school in the Ukrainian town of Kupiansk.
The soldiers were armed, the Ukrainian teenager recalls, and their faces were hidden under balaclavas.
In the above excerpt from the new FRONTLINE documentary "Children of Ukraine," Artem describes what happened next.
“The Russians surrounded the buses, and we were taken out under the control of armed men,” Artem says.
In that moment, he adds, he feared “that we would be shot from all sides.”
For the full story, watch “Children of Ukraine,” premiering Tues., April 16 at 10.9c on KZread and PBS stations.
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This is truly disturbing.
I'm so glad he got to go home ❤
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
Why?????!!!!!
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
@@dkrawk8309 Because now he's freer from Russian terrorism.
@760HorsePower
Ай бұрын
I love Putin
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
@@760HorsePower everyone does
@CarolineBearoline
Ай бұрын
@@760HorsePower and I love Mustang GT500s. I'm pretty sure that's quintessential American Muscle, Rusky 😘
Thank you for this
@ugoaris9568
Ай бұрын
Just lies!!! You know well how to write fake news!!!
😥
Can't wait to see this documentary
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
Highly doubt tlanyone would make documentary on FAKE NEWS
And then they let him go.
thank you Frontline
He is one of the lucky ones.
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
How the ef do you figure???
@grandmasfavorites
Ай бұрын
@@dkrawk8309 Because he was able to be reunited with his mother.
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
@@grandmasfavorites for how long till he's killed by the ukrianian nazis?
@Proxymated
Ай бұрын
@@dkrawk8309 because he was saved by Russia
@alhambrabiker1476
26 күн бұрын
@@Proxymatedby abducting by Russia? Are you drinking vodka?
Glad to see they reunited
Have a fantastic life, Artem. 💙💛❤
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
What fantastic life???? Under the ukrianian nazi regime where he is not allowed to the ukriane??? DAFAQ IS WRONG WITH U???
@mnob1122
Ай бұрын
@@dkrawk8309Russian bot
@JackFontana-be2lr
Ай бұрын
YOU MEAN LIKE PUTIN’S WAGNER NEO-NAZI DMTRY UTKIN? PUTIN’S NAZI RUSICh?
@alhambrabiker1476
26 күн бұрын
@@dkrawk8309Russians can’t even protest against Putin or his war without getting arrested. How many years Putin was a president? Russians can’t even elect their own president. Russian Nazi Utkin and Wagner terrorists regime is still in Russia. Come one Putin’s slave you know it.
heart breaking! Damn those Russians!🦌💌🙏
Dont play me! Not even gonna watch
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
Wtf is wrong with your brain?
😢❤
I'm so glad America is funding this
@lotuspocus76312
29 күн бұрын
😂😂🤐
Французы отрицают очевидное ,что сирота по моему сюжету снято
Please don't send them to front....
"War does not discriminate; it takes the young and old, the strong and weak alike." -Ernst Junger,Stprm of Steel
War crimes.
In times of ai you all is to read subtitles? Hand down
The same thing has been working under Kim and Si-Si-P for decades.
Held by Russian ? Then how journalist can interview them????😂😂😂😂
Should the U.S fund Ukraine? Why or why not?
@Tormentality
Ай бұрын
The US should fund it's poverty plagued cities, then focus on brokering peace deals internationally. So no, and that's why. What are your thoughts?
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
@@Tormentality Agreed, but they should also fund Ukraine, because it's under a massive terrorist attack. Pretty sure USA can do both, but since they are always fighting each other, and Russia has now infiltrated into the Republican party, they are unable to do either.
@lw1zfog
Ай бұрын
should the U$ have covert CIA bases all over Ukraine ? how about those biolabs ? where did Joanna Wintrol go ? can we ask Vicky Nuland ?
@user-yu4tm3ek9z
Ай бұрын
@@Tormentality I appreciate your intuitive reply. Since you asked, Here's my personal opinion: I agree with you in saying that our government should definitely look towards the ever-increasing amount of problems (Border crisis, drug epidemic, rising inflation etc.), accruing in this beloved nation of ours. As a nation, we have given 75 billion dollars to aid Ukraine's govt, a government which suffers regularly from widespread forms of corruption. And even though we have provided billions of dollars worth of equipment, Ukraine has still yet to rid the Russians off of their territory. Giving them more money may only prolong the suffering of both Ukrainians and Russians alike in this conflict, rather then ending the war for good. But at the same time, I really don't want Ukrainian men, women and children to suffer at the hands of a brutal military occupation. If as a nation the U.S has enough money set aside to aid those fighting for democracy and freedom, then of course we should aid them in their cause. At the same time, there's always the probability that if Russia does conquer Ukraine, they may not just stop there. They may even go so far as to re-take all of Eastern Europe (which, for the most part, is NATO aligned) thus causing a Third World War. In short, I'm split over this question. The reason why I asked you and others in the comments section was that my opinions tend to be flawed in their nature, and people, such as yourself, may have both the intellect and the reasoning to help formulate a proper ideology. Thank you for your time, and have a blessed day.
@Tormentality
Ай бұрын
@@user-yu4tm3ek9z What you're saying all makes sense to me. It's a difficult situation and I'm just glad none of it is on my doorstep. And I hope you too have a blessed day, I appreciate your reply.
Frontline is fkn Heat 🔥
@Tormentality
Ай бұрын
fact on facts on facts. straight facts
@dkrawk8309
Ай бұрын
@@Tormentalitylies in les in lies. Straight lies
I can sympathize My tax dollars were also taken
This reminds me of the former US president's policies of managing the southern border, separating children from their parents and having no plans to reunite them.
@johnconnelly3066
Ай бұрын
You mean the same “parents” using “their” children as a pawn to get across but in reality they had just purchased them or were about to sell them into slavery? I keep in touch with boots on the ground and not a single family WITH EVIDENCE that they were a family were separated. The ones who claim to be but have not a shred of proof? You’re darn right they need to be separated until the situation is looked at more closely. No family pics with you? Not even on your phone? Sorry, not buying it
@MrRobert12882
Ай бұрын
Yeah Obama was terrible..
Thank you! I still think it's time to give the truth about Palestine and Israel.
@Tormentality
Ай бұрын
The truth is two different cultures having trouble getting alone. As humans, we should all be embarrassed. Would you agree with that truth or are you looking for certain humans to be murdered? What's your truth?
@waltw9818
Ай бұрын
@@Tormentality There is no singular truth; too many perspectives, etc. Since you have watched this PBS presentation we both should know that they do the best they can and try not to bias anything. For me it’s all about Zionism; review some of that about them. Review that aspect right near the end of WWII please. Basically, they say they have a ‘god given right’ to that land… One in which they left prior to WWII, where people ‘have resided and now reside’ (in past tense as noted WWII era; and even now). On the surface during this time it looked like they were a peaceful people, not minding the Israeli's! Look at what they’ve done to ‘obtain’ that land, sure some and/or much was done ‘legally’/’rightfully’ but there are instances of where they massacred virtually all the townspeople’s; and here’s the thing to that - it’s been reported by ‘witnesses’ that they took pictures of the people before they did that bad deed. When confronted to release those pictures - they outright said that they would not; thereby confirming at the very least that they have noted pictures! Now - even if that is true then I have to ask: “So how will god view and more importantly Judge “them” for doing such?!?’ They used the holocaust to gain influence and power around the world, all to support their people. Then some since WWII - have used that to have the world turn a blind eye to what they’ve been doing and are doing! Let me show you an example that is similar! USA & Native Americans! Its repeated many times before and since! Are we not to be ‘better humans’ and ‘learn by our mistakes?’ Doesn’t look like it! @Vox has a bunch of decent videos, theirs on the conflict dates some 8 years ago. Look at this one by @NovaraMedia “Israeli Sniper Shoots Dead Unarmed Palestinian With White Flag” Stop and think about it… A Sniper had to have that guy in his sights, so he would see that at least one of them is carrying a white flag… Then there’s one by @CNN “Palestinians are being shot while waving white flags. CNN's Clarissa Ward investigates.” This one - you see it all in the video! Then there’s this one - from like 12 years ago! @60minutes “Stories about Israel and Palestine from the archives | 60 Minutes Full Episodes” Least ‘we’ forget what the UN Leaders themselves are saying! Least we forget the humanitarian supplies by World Central Kitchen! To allow this continuing subjugation of Palestinian’s under Israel control is INHUMANE! Least we forget the words of Tal Sagi and many others! Least I get to not wanting my US Tax Dollars paying Israel to do this kind of crap!
all is well that ends well?
Russia go home and fix your failing Country..
@scottymacdewder5229
Ай бұрын
Ooooh, can you tell my gov't here in america to do the same?
@michellewhatshername5577
Ай бұрын
This Scotty dude is either paid to push Russian Propaganda or he is a fool who does it for free and is a traitor to the United States.
@scottymacdewder5229
Ай бұрын
@@DG-ie5ip I died for my freedom
@MsDee-ok8ej
Ай бұрын
@@DG-ie5ipOh please!!!!! America is a mess!!!!!
@Deltasquadformingup
Ай бұрын
At least I have the right to say so@@MsDee-ok8ej
Can someone explain to My dumbass….why would they take him, just to give him back. Especially since there In a war, yet the mother was able to get him. Someone smart explain plz
@Dovelunalove
Ай бұрын
they took a lot of ukrainian children from orphanages and school to Russia “summer camps”. Not to save them, but to use them as leverage under the disguise of saving them, also there are propaganda videos of the ukrainian kids crying and hugging the russian soldiers saying thank u for saving them from ukraine. they essentially wanted to brainwash them into believing their country was bad. this was done to native American kids in the US and aboriginal children in Australia back in history. they gave him back bc they weren’t actually trying to save or help the children. they were just used as props so that russia looked like the “good guy”. they killed many children. there is a documentary on this channel that u really should watch. it shows the dead children and pregnant women and also was filmed by a Ukrainian reporter who was trapped in the middle of the war.
@theodore4017
Ай бұрын
Western propaganda for you. In fact there is a video where Ukrainian soldiers recruit by force hundreds of innocent civilians without their will.
@josephadams2109
Ай бұрын
Communist Indoctrination Tactics
What a load of 💩
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
Don't talk to yourself that way 🤭
They're only going to show when they have bad things to say about ruzzians
Russia❤❤
Putin's youth.
Well Ukraine demands to be paid in full , especially EU, Taiwan and Israel they need all the money.
Odd no FrontLine PBS videos on Children Dying from US weapons in Gaza.. I mean it's only been 6 months.
@TrollOfReason
Ай бұрын
Bad things can happen in multiple places at once. Meanwhile, the IDF is actively killing journalists while try to cover the war. Free Palestine; Russians go home.
@xdw4357
Ай бұрын
Ukraine doesn't support Hamas. Acting like Oct 7th didn't happen.
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Peace in Palistine!!! War in Ukraine!!! Which one is it????
@cyanwine6003
Ай бұрын
Ukraine has to keep fighting to survive. Israel less so.
@cyanwine6003
Ай бұрын
These are two completely different wars.
😁😁😁😁ukrainian paid bag of potatoe actors playing funny drama😁😁😁😁
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
Russian braindead bot, being a braindead bot. 🤣
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Passed the Senate Supplemental Bill to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Israel 🇮🇱 Taiwan 🇹🇼
@lbelton8886
Ай бұрын
No, he separated each bill to be voted on individually.
@secern
Ай бұрын
Speaker Johnson and the house GOP have been consistently delaying aid to these war torn areas.
@patrickmunneke8348
Ай бұрын
Oh yeah, let's waste trillions in taxpayer dollars we don't have.
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
@@patrickmunneke8348 Funding to Ukraine is not a waste, it's the best investment USA has ever made.
@patrickmunneke8348
Ай бұрын
@JuicyTobacco Investment? 🤣😂 We get nothing. To fund it more, we will have to borrow from the PRC.
So on what type of magic was this kid thrown back to the ukrianian nazis???
@ken15cia
Ай бұрын
Ukrainian nazi’s? Please do explain? On what kinda of assumption or proof.. are the Ukraine Nazi’s?
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
Imagine thinking that Ukraine has more Nazis than Russia, who literally invaded Poland with Nazis, and loved Nazis until they got betrayed. Your braincells seem to be struggling.
@Thedooroverthere
Ай бұрын
Ah yes, simple logic. A country is full of nazis if they attack Russia. /s
@spredzemar
19 күн бұрын
thanks to his parents
Operation Babylift comes to mind.
Good ukrainian propaganda
@remiplourde1867
Ай бұрын
How's the wheater in moscow? Good?
Now tell the truth about the Children of Donbass suffering from Ukrainian Nazi shelling since 2014
@vladyslavonishchuk4604
Ай бұрын
🤡
@noahkrocks
Ай бұрын
How do Putin’s boots taste?
@DavesView
Ай бұрын
Stop watching Rachael Maddow Russiagate fan
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
Suffering from Putin's DPR terrorists*, there fixed it for ya.
@domerame5913
Ай бұрын
Ah yes, the woman and children, not russian funded separatists that made mass graves for dissenters Also it's called ukrainian liberators, not nazis. The Afrika Korps however...
BS propaganda
I was taken by Aliens 👽👽 🤬 But I became so annoying that they had to put me back on earth 🌎
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
I vote for sending you back to them, you're not needed here.
@spredzemar
19 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
russia is an outhouse
Welcome home young man Russia will pay
Free Ukraine and free Palestine
@schlomogooglestein9544
26 күн бұрын
Hahahahahah there’s a group of people at the center of both of these 👃🏻
This propaganda is brought to you by pentagon propaganda office
War breaks out, Zelensky poses for a photoshoot with Vogue magazine 😅 strange times
@jkfdkjjd
Ай бұрын
That probably had to do with his tracksuits. No not really strange times. Hitler on the cover of Time magazine and all that.
@patrickmunneke8348
Ай бұрын
@@jkfdkjjd That was way before ww2
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
I mean, why not? He gets more funding to help Ukraine. Zelensky is a very smart guy.
PROPAGANDA 😂😂😂
@MFYouTube683
Ай бұрын
I’m glad you warning about your character in your profile handle.
@Filip10101
Ай бұрын
Yes, Russians forcefully indoctrinating kids from other countries is indeed propaganda. It's dystopian as hell.
@ForexG.U.Y
Ай бұрын
Like so obvious
"We were fed, clothed, and educated... it was hell."
@edzbienen
Ай бұрын
Don't make yourself look dumber than you are.
@TrollOfReason
Ай бұрын
"We were kidnapped, threatened with death. They took my parents away from me & tried to brainwash me into hating who I am."
@dhanu_4539
Ай бұрын
@@TrollOfReasonyou'd prefer to be a kid in Palestine? 😅😅
@scottymacdewder5229
Ай бұрын
@@TrollOfReason sorry are you referring to the American public education system?
@scottymacdewder5229
Ай бұрын
@@TrollOfReason it was also the literal system in Canada for indigenous youth for 200 years
160 children found in GERMANY which the ukrianian nazis were saying that Russian Federation has evacuated then to Russia. WHAT A PERFECT TIME FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!
This child appears to be 25 years old, there is no way he could be a kidnapped child.
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
He was 15 when he was kidnapped, he doesn't look 25 at all. Wtf are you on about?
@alexandrnoskov5437
Ай бұрын
@@JuicyTobacco Why so much attention to one single teenager? Where are the dozens of people of different ages and genders who were kidnapped by the SBU? Are many of them still in Ukrainian prisons?
@JuicyTobacco
Ай бұрын
@@alexandrnoskov5437 Are you getting paid by the Kremlin with potatoes? Or is your brain just rotten?
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@jkfdkjjd
Ай бұрын
ZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzz you snooze you lose