LIVE. >> NOW TO AN ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WALKING INTO UKRAINIAN ORPHANAGE AND SIMPLY TAKING OVER. ONE OF THOSE CHILDREN ALREADY ADOPTED BY AN AMERICAN MOTHER, WHO DETAILS THE MONTHS OF HELL, NOT KNOWING WHETHER SHE WOULD NEVER GET TO BRING HER DAUGHTER HOME. ABC NEWS IN HIS DAY LA POSADA HAS THIS REPORT. >> WHAT IS YOUR DAUGHTER KIDNAPPED BY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. >> I WOULD SAY, YES. I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW. I WILL SEE WHEN -- -- HOPEFULLY JUST CHOOSE TO GO TO RUSSIA. >> THE VIDEO IS DISTURBING AND ARMED RUSSIAN SOLDIERS GOING ROOM BY ROOM AT AN ORPHANAGE IN UKRAINE. THESE WERE THE MEN KEEPING WATCH OUT FOR BETH WHITE'S DAUGHTER. >> ESPECIALLY WITH HER -- BEING ADOPTED, SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BE THERE. -- THIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE WAR'S MOST VULNERABLE. 15 UKRAINIANS ORPHANS TAKEN BY UKRAINIAN -- AND REAPPEARING ALMOST A YEAR AFTER THE WAR BEGAN INTO POLIC, GEORGIA. >> -- >> THE GROUP SHARING THEIR STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME, SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY WITH ABC NEWS ABOUT THE HEROIC EFFORTS TO GET THEM TO SAFETY. [SOUND OF ARTILLERY] >> TELL ME THAT HOW YOU GOT OUT OF UKRAINE. >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> WITH THESE CHILDREN THEY HAPPEN TO THEM IS SOME OF THE CLEAREST EVIDENCE WENT OF WHAT UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN CLAIMING FOR MONTHS AND WHILE RUSSIA REJECTS ALLEGATIONS IT HAS BEEN KIDNAPPING CHILDREN, JUST LAST WEEK, UKRAINE'S TOP PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO SAY RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE ADOPTED ABDUCTED CLOSE TO 40,000 UKRAINIAN CHILDREN. THE FORCEABLE TRANSFER OF CHILDREN CONSTITUTES A WAR CRIME. IT CAN EVEN QUALIFY AS GENOCIDE. >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> NATALIA, AHEAD OF THIS ORPHANAGE, SAYS SHE AND THE KIDS PICKED UP PACKED UP AS SOON AS THE WAR BROKE OUT, WAITING TO BE EVACUATED ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT NO ONE WAS COMING FOR THEM. >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> AMONG THE 15 CHILDREN, THE DAUGHTER OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY, YULIA HAD JUST BEEN ADOPTED. HER PAPERWORK WAS FINALIZED JUST FOUR DAYS AFTER THE WAR BROKE OUT. >> LITERALLY THE ONLY THING LEFT WAS TO GET HER SENT AND BRING HER ON A PLANE. THAT WAS ALL WE HAD LEFT TO DO FOR HER. >> HER MOM GROWING INCREASINGLY CONCERNED -- AND THEN CAME THE DAY SHE LOST ALL CONTACT WITH YULIA. >> I FELT LIKE MY LIFE JUST REALLY, REALLY STOPPED. I FOUND OUT SHE WAS ADOPTED BY AN AMERICAN FAMILY. -- HER AND EVERYBODY ELSE AT MASSIVE RISK AS WELL. SO, I KNOW THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO KEEP THAT DOWN. >> BACK AT THE ORPHANAGE, THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT HUNKER DOWN. THE KIDS MOVING INTO THE BASEMENT BELOW THEIR SCHOOL AS THE REGION QUICKLY FELL. >> RUSSIAN SOLDIERS SOON COMING TO THE ORPHANAGE. >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> -- SOLDIERS BARRED HIM FROM LEAVING AND WERE FURIOUS TO LEARN SHE HAD BEEN ASKING FOR HELP EVACUATING. >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> BETH, MEANWHILE, WAS ESTABLISHING CONTACT WITH AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS ASH AND KATHY, WHO HAD BEEN WORKING TO HELP EVACUATE PEOPLE IN UKRAIN, BOTH MAKING IT THEIR MISSION TO HELP FIND THESE CHILDREN. >> I JUST COULDN'T STAND TO HAVE THEM BE THINKING THAT THEY DID NOT MATTER AND THEY WERE JUST, LIKE, LEAVES THAT WERE BEING BLOWN AROUND, WITH NO DIRECTION AND NO DESTINATION, TO SAY, WE KNOW. WE ARE GETTING YOU OUT. WE KNOW >> THE TWO WOMEN WORKING THEIR CONTACTS TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE AND HOW TO GET TO THEM. KATHY EVEN DRIVING DOWN CLOSE TO THE ORPHANAGE, ONLY TO REALIZE IT WAS BEHIND RUSSIAN LINES. >> THEN, AT THAT POINT, I WAS REALLY STARTING TO FEEL VERY HOPELESS. BECAUSE -- IF THEY WERE REALLY CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE WE ARE NEVER GOING TO SEE HER AGAIN, EVEN THOUGH OUR ADOPTION IS FINAL. SHE WAS OUR DAUGHTER. >> BUT THINGS WOULD GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GOT BETTER. IN JULY, RUSSIAN SOLDIERS TOLD NATALIA AND THE KIDS THEY WOULD BE MOVED TO THE KHERSON REGION IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE. >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> THIS IS THE DIRECTOR IN KHERSON? >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] >> IN KHERSON, NATALIA SAYS THE CHILDREN WONDER CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE, BUT THEY WERE REPEATEDLY USED FOR PROPAGANDA VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE, AIRED BY THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL GUARD. SOLDIERS CLAIMING TO HAVE RESCUED THE CHILDREN -- AND AS RUSSIAN FORCES BEGAN LOSING GROUND IN KHERSON, THE CHILDREN WERE MOVED AGAIN. THEY WERE NOT TOLD WHERE THEY WERE GOING UNTIL THEY REALIZED THEY HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO RUSSIA. >> I DID NOT FULLY GIVE UP HOPE. BUT IT WAS REALLY HARD. YOU KNOW? THERE WERE A LOT OF TIMES WHERE MY GRIEF JUST REALLY HIT. ESPECIALLY WALKING BY THE MOON -- HAD COURT AND LEGALLY ADOPTED HER ON THAT DAY. AND SHE IS STILL NOT HOME. AND FOR MOST OF THAT TIME WE JUST DID NOT EVEN KNOW IF SHE WOULD. >> THEN, IN NOVEMBER, NINE MONTHS AFTER THE WAR BROKE OUT, ALL 15 CHILDREN CROSSING THE RUSSIAN BORDER INTO -- AND BETH FINALLY GETTING THE KNEW SHE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR. THE WOMEN WHO MADE IT ALL HAPPEN SAY THEY ARE JUST GETTING STARTED. >> WE CAN'T ACTUALLY GO INTO THE MECHANICS OF HOW IT WAS DONE, BECAUSE IT -- DONE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. >> THE CHILDREN NOW HAVE -- ORPHANAGE IN GEORGIA. AND AS FOR EULOGY, IS FINALLY HOME. >> FOR MORE IN CAPTIVITY, TO FREEDOM, TOUCHING DOWN IN WYOMING TO THE WARM AND BRACE OF HER NEW FAMILY. BECOMING A U.S. IT IS IN THE MOMENT SHE SET FOOT ON U.S. SOIL. WHEN SHE ASKED WHAT SHE IS MOST EXCITED ABOUT, IT'S A ONE WORD ANSWER. >>