“Ukraine will create a register of information on children deported by Russia, the Verkhovna Rada announced, commenting on the signing of the law”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the text of the document, the law “determines the legal and organizational principles for the creation and functioning of the State Register of persons injured as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, to ensure compensation for the damage caused to their lives and health.”
The Verkhovna Rada, commenting on the signing of the law, reported that Ukraine will now create a Register of information on children deported by Russia.
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“Ukraine will create a register of information on children deported or forcibly displaced in connection with Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine,” the parliament said.
In addition, the Council adds, the state has defined the principles for the creation and functioning of the Information Accounting System on damage caused to the personal non-property rights of individuals as a result of Russia’s armed aggression. It is about injury or damage to health, torture, cruel, inhumane treatment or punishment, loss of access to medical, social or educational services.
“Information about the damage to personal non-property rights caused starting from February 19, 2014 to citizens of Ukraine, foreigners and stateless persons who were on the territory of Ukraine on legal grounds will be recorded,” the press service of the Council clarifies.
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According to the explanatory note, although there is already a register of property damaged in the course of Russia’s full-scale aggression in Ukraine, there is still no register of damage caused to non-property rights of citizens. This includes, in particular, death or disappearance, injury and disability, violence, capture, deportation (including deportation of children), mental disorders due to trauma, loss of parents by children, loss of income and access to services, moral damages.
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.