According to Ukraine's official count, 20,000 children have been forcibly deported since the war started in February 2022. However, that figure does not include kids taken since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.   Kuleba contends that many of the kids who were taken end up fighting against their homeland.   "Thousands of young adults who have been Ukrainian schoolchildren ten years ago, now killed on battlefields or sitting in Ukrainian prisons as captured soldiers," he said.   That's an alleged war crime, which prompted the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's commissioner for children's rights.   Kuleba believes Putin is guilty of far worse.   "I'm sure in 10, 20 years, (the) whole world will prove and will wake up that, 'Oh, it was genocide,'" he said.   So far, Save Ukraine has returned more than 600 children in dangerous rescue missions across Russia and the occupied territory. His team also provides counseling and reintegration services for kids and families displaced by war.   Kuleba credits his call as a child advocate to American missionaries who introduced him to the gospel after the fall of the Soviet Union.   "I asked God every day, 'God, what can I do? How can I serve you?'" he recalled. "It was so clear from Jesus that I'm sending you to save these kids to change their lives."   That calling brought Ksenia to Kuleba's team for help and eventually brought her brother to freedom back home in Ukraine.   "He's very happy, and I'm happy, too, because we (are) together in Ukraine at home," she explained.  

She's now sharing their journey to raise awareness, even traveling to the United States. It's a story she's bravely telling so that other stolen kids will not be forgotten.