“In the territory controlled by Ukraine, three boys and two girls were returned”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Three boys and two girls managed to snatch from the invaders’ paws. The youngest child is 8 years old, and the oldest is 17. They returned one person from orphans. All of them are safe, receive the necessary help, including medical and psychological, ”the message reads.
According to Ukraine’s official data, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children were found in Russia and the occupied territories. The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets suggested that Russia illegally exported about 150,000 children from Ukraine. Daria Gerasimchuk, the Authorized BP, calls the figure in “several hundred thousand children, that is, somewhere 200-300 thousand”.
As of November 12, Ukraine was able to return from the territory of the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied lands more than a thousand children, said the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets.
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.