“Moscow claims that there is no “stolen” child, but is “rescued by Russian soldiers from the war zone””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Today, during the negotiations in Istanbul, the Ukrainian side has officially submitted a list of Ukrainian children to be returned to the Russian side. It is about hundreds of children whom Russia illegally deported, forcibly moved or held in temporarily occupied territories, ”he wrote in a telegram.
He recalled that in March, at a meeting in Jedda, Ukraine confirmed his readiness for a 30-day ceasefire with a humanitarian component.
“The return of Ukrainian children is an inseparable part of a fair and long peace and a key element of trust, the first test for the sincerity of intentions. We are waiting for the answer. The ball on the field of Russia. True integrity is not a word, but actions. And now it is time to prove it, ”Yermak added.
Medinsky claims that there is no “stolen” child, but is “rescued by Russian soldiers from the war zone.”
According to the official data of Ukraine, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in Russia during a full -scale war in Russia and the occupied territories. At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets suggested that Russia illegally exported about 150 thousand children from Ukraine, and the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Daria Gerasimchuk called the figure in “several hundred thousand children, ie somewhere 200-300 thousand”.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court in the Hague issued warrants for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the children’s Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lviv-Belova. They are suspected of committing war crimes – violent deportations and movement of the population, including children, from the occupied territories of Ukraine.
In July 2023, the Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child of Lviv-Belova stated that Russia has “accepted” about 4.8 million inhabitants of Ukraine since the beginning of a full-scale invasion, of which more than 700,000 were children. According to her, most Ukrainian children allegedly came to Russia with their parents or other relatives.