““I thank the state of Qatar for mediation to return five children””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, among his returned to Ukraine-a 10-year-old boy who remained in occupation for a long time with his sick grandmother.
“When the war began, his mother was in another city. She tried to take her son on her own, but to no avail. Now the family is again together and safe in Ukraine, ”Yermak said.
According to Yermak, this return of children was made possible by the initiative of the President of Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA, as well as thanks to the efforts of the Ombudsman office.
“I thank the state of Qatar for mediation to return five children,” Yermak stressed.
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”.
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 November 12, Ukraine was able to return from the territory of the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied lands more than a thousand children, said the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets.
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.