“According to the official data of Ukraine, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in Russia and the occupied territories.”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Two boys and two girls, aged 7 to 17 years old, were returned to Ukraine -controlled Ukraine from the temporarily occupied Kherson region. One of the children has the status of a child deprived of parental care.
Among the rescued are the girl and her mother. The family was forced to receive Russian documents, because without them could not even solve household issues. The woman also threatened to pick up a baby if she did not give a girl to the Russian school.
It was possible to evacuate both brother and sister, as well as their parents who could not go without Russian documents on their own, ”the official wrote in a telegram.
Prokudin said that the rescue of children was possible within the limits of Bring Kids Back UA initiative and with the assistance of the Office of the Verkhovna Rada of the Verkhovna Rada.
According to Ukraine’s official data, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in Russia and the occupied territories. The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets suggested that Russia illegally exported about 150,000 children from Ukraine. The BP, Darya Gerasimchuk, calls the figure in “several hundred thousand children, that is, somewhere 200-300 thousand”.
As of February 26, Ukraine was able to return 1227 children from the territory of the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied lands, the first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska reported.
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.