Second Annual Children Praying For Children Held at Ukraine House in Washington DC

Braving stormy skies, Ambassador Oksana Markarova welcomed everyone to this significant, but somber gathering, to pray for and remember the thousands of Ukrainian children who have been abducted by Russian forces and are being held captive in the Russian Federation.

Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak led the local Ukrainian Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant clergy in offering prayers for the children and their families who suffer the deliberate separation from their children.

Official statistics account for 19546 children being unlawfully taken to russia.  Ukrainian Families do not have contact with or know the whereabouts of their children.