“The bill clarifies the concept of deportation and forced transfer of children”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The document was supported by 248 deputies.
The parliamentarian noted that the draft law clarifies the concepts of deportation and forced transfer of children:
• Deportation of a child – illegal transfer of a child to the territory of the aggressor state or its allies without the consent of the child and his legal representatives.
• Forced transfer – transfer of a child from the territory of Ukraine to the temporarily occupied territories or the aggressor state without his consent.
The procedure for the return, reintegration and adaptation of deported children will be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
According to official Ukrainian data, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children ended up in Russia and the occupied territories during the war. Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, assumed that in total, Russia illegally removed about 150,000 children from Ukraine. Darya Gerasimchuk, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Children’s Rights, calls the number “several hundred thousand children, that is, somewhere between 200-300 thousand.”
As of November 12, Ukraine was able to return 1,002 children from the territory of the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied lands, said Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova. They are suspected of committing war crimes – forcible deportations and displacement of the population, including children, from the occupied territories of Ukraine.