“The 18-year-old teenage girl spent three years in Russia, where her family was forced to leave Mariupol in 2022, says OP chairman”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, an 18-year-old teenage girl spent three years in Russia, where her family was forced to leave Mariupol in 2022.
“Nevertheless, she did not stop studying at the Ukrainian school online and even before the age of majority began to plan a return. The other day, she crossed the border and is already safe in the free territory of Ukraine, ”Yermak said.
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.