Yermak reported the rescue of four children from the occupied territories

Four children who were in the occupied part of Ukraine were able to get into the Ukrainian government -controlled territory as limited to the President of Bring Kids Back UA, Presidential Head Andriy Yermak reported on August 1.

“A 15-year-old girl who stubbornly wore embroidery to the Russian school, defending her pro-Ukrainian position. For this she was brutally harassed and beaten, and teachers wrote denunciations and threatened their mother’s deprivation of parental rights. Two more are saved – a four -year -old girl and her eight -year -old brother. Their family threatened to select children for refusing to visit the Russian school. A 17-year-old guy who barely had time to avoid compulsory call to the Russian army, because he was already given a summons, and several classmates have already been called to the service despite her young age, ”Yermak wrote in a telegram, expressing gratitude to the Save Ukraine and other partners.

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.