“The database has data on 294 children under 17 years of age”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The database has data on 294 children under 17 years of age. Their names, photos, character and hobbies are published. The database has filters by gender, age, eye and hair color, as well as siblings.
“The way they describe our children is no different from the slave catalog. It is a real trade in children in the 21st century, which the world should stop, ”Kuleba emphasized.
According to him, most children were born before Russian troops seized the Luhansk region and had Ukrainian citizenship.
“The parents of some were killed by the occupying power, others just made Russian documents to legalize the abduction,” Kuleba wrote on Facebook on the evening of August 7.
The Russian edition of the New Newspaper Europe reminds that in 2021, LNR has already published a similar base with minors for adoption.
According to Ukraine’s official data, about 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in Russia during a full -scale war in Russia and the occupied territories. One and a half thousand of them managed to return.
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.
Moscow does not deny the fact of child export, but explains it with safety issues. The Russian side also states that it allegedly returns children to relatives.