[Correspondence] Russia's health workers complicit in abducting Ukraine's children

Over the past 3·5 years, the largest child abduction case since World War 2 has unfolded—19 500 children have been forcibly transferred from Ukraine to Russia and Russian-occupied territory.1,2 Russia has used health professionals to conduct and legitimise the abduction of children from Ukraine: psychologists issued necessary documents for children to be transferred to Russia under the guise of medical rehabilitation1 and facilitated the illegal placement of Ukrainian children in Russian families.