“The Presidential Representation of Ukraine to the ARC was noted on April 15 that according to the statement of human rights defenders, it was about children aged one to five years who were under the care of the state at childhood institutions at the time of the occupation at the time of the occupation”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“According to the UHHRU, children were imposed on Russian citizenship, they were adopted and perhaps adopted. There is no information about their place of residence since 2014, despite the repeated requests of the Ukrainian authorities, ”the ECtHR said.
The representation of the President of Ukraine to the ARC on April 15 noted that according to the statement of human rights defenders, it was about children aged one to five years, who were under the care of the state at childhood institutions at the time of the occupation.
“After establishing control over Crimea, the Russian authorities refused to return children to Ukraine, did not report their place of stay, and subsequently their profiles appeared on the Russian site for adoption. The UHHRU suggests that some children could be adopted because the information about them disappeared from the platform. In 2014, the Russian authorities declared more than four thousand Ukrainian children from Crimea who did not have parental care, ”the message reads.
Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea stresses that it supports the ECtHR decision and demands the return of illegally displaced Ukrainian children home.
The ECtHR said that the Russian government was addressed from the court on March 25. The Government of the Russian Federation must submit its comments by July 31, 2025, and within three weeks from the date on the letter of the court – must confirm whether it plans to comply with this deadline.
Russia on March 15, 2022 stated that the Council of Europe, which also means automatic exit from the Jurisdiction of the ECtHR. Formally, Russia remained a party to the ECtHR until September 16, 2022. In June 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows not to comply with the ECtHR decision, adopted after March 15.
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”.
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.