“A teenager at the beginning of a full -scale war was in a village that was “very fast” captured by Russian invaders”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
It is a 17-year-old boy who, according to Zavovna, at the beginning of a full-scale war was in a village that was “very fast” captured by Russian invaders.
“His mother and younger sister remained in the territory controlled by Ukraine, and the connection with them was almost gone. In the face of constant danger, the guy was forced to go to Russia in search of a way to return home, ”the official said.
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She added that today the guy met with his family in Kiev. Zarivna thanked the Ukrainian network for the rights of the child for their return.
“Now the family receives legal, psychological and household support. We will not stop until every Ukrainian child is safe, ”she 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”.
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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.