“According to Yermak, “Matviy, who was barely six months old, saw how the Russian invaders kidnapped and tortured his mother four times.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Since the beginning of 2024, 449 children have already been returned. Among them are five who recently escaped together with their mothers from the temporarily occupied territories within the framework of the initiative of the President of Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA”, said the head of the OP.
According to Yermak, “Matviy, who was barely six months old, saw how the Russian invaders kidnapped his mother four times and tortured him.”
He also said that “15-year-old Trokhym, who lost his father and was left without a mother, was threatened by the Russians with a summons to force him to serve in the ranks of the Russian army.”
“I sincerely thank the Save Ukraine partners who organized the rescue mission for these families,” Yermak emphasized.
According to official Ukrainian data, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children ended up in Russia and the occupied territories during the war. Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, assumed that in total, Russia illegally removed about 150,000 children from Ukraine. Darya Gerasimchuk, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Children’s Rights, calls the number “several hundred thousand children, that is, somewhere between 200-300 thousand.”
As of November 12, Ukraine was able to return 1,002 children from the territory of the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied lands, said Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova. They are suspected of committing war crimes – forcible deportations and displacement of the population, including children, from the occupied territories of Ukraine.