“Yermak reported that the children were persecuted, searched, questioned, tortured”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Within the limits of the Presidential Initiative of Ukraine (Vladimir Zelensky – Ed.) Bring Kids Back UA managed to save another group of teenagers from temporarily occupied territories. These children became the target of the Russian special services because of the refusal to follow the rules imposed by the occupiers, ”he said.
Yermak reported that they were persecuted, searched, questioned, tortured. One of the boys was pressure only because he did not want to study at the Russian school.
The smallest of the only three years rescued – she was mocked through the Ukrainian language, which causes the head to stutter and now needs the help of specialists, the head of the OP said.
“Now all these children are safe. I am grateful to the Save Ukraine team for their professional work and help to save children. We carry out the task of the President – to return all children, ”he added.
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.