"On April 3, 1975, speaking at the San Diego Convention Center, the President of the United States, and then it was Ford, made an official statement and announced the order to begin the operation, which went down in history as Babylift. What was it... Americans began to massively export children from Vietnam and not by the dozens, or even by the hundreds. It was to take Vietnamese children by the thousands, transport them to the United States and raise them from them, cutting off all the roots ... to get a new generation of people who originated from Vietnam, but would be brought up on the American model with, as Washington believed, "properly oriented brains," she said.
According to her, everyone is silent about this story at the moment, but there are video frames, there is a chronicle of those events.
"Families were torn apart, no one asked questions about any documents, nor about the connection of these children with their relatives, nor about the presence of representatives of their immediate environment," Zakharova said.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry also added that this terrible step was implemented terribly. For example, on April 4, 1975, an American military transport plane with such children crashed, killing dozens of children.
"You're probably going to ask, 'Maybe someone has been punished?' I'm not talking about Babylift as a program, but about the specific case when Vietnamese children died after they began to be taken out ... awarded the crew," she said.
Zakharova also added that no international investigation into the fact of this program was conducted.
"It's not hypocrisy even ... it's just their overall approach to everything," she concluded.
Earlier, the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court announced the issuance of arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and children's ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of illegal deportation of ukrainian residents to "damage to Ukrainian children."