“According to the official data of Ukraine, over 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in the full -scale war in Russia and the occupied territories.”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Mom with three children-a 13-year-old girl and boys 11 and 9 years old-have experienced a lot of difficulties,” Yermak said.
The OP chairman says that at school the children openly spoke about their Ukrainian identity, harassed them, reduced grades and conducted “educational” conversations.
“The school has become a source of constant pressure and bullying by teachers. Thanks to the help of the Helping to Leave team the family is already at home. Here they are waiting for a new start – with support, the opportunity to study at a Ukrainian school and to build life without fear, ”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.