Occupiers abduct more than 6,000 Ukrainian children
Over the period of the full-scale invasion, the occupiers have taken 6,032 Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Source: Olena Vykhor, Head of Secretariat Management of the Ombudsman, on air with Suspilne
Quote: "I must clarify: they include not only the children who were deported to the territory of the Russian Federation, but also those who were taken to the territories not controlled by the Ukrainian government.
In fact, those are Ukraine’s children, abducted by Russian soldiers and taken to the territory where neither Ukrainian nor humanitarian laws are applied."
Details: Vykhor reported that the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Ombudsman received the information on the evening of 4 November; it concerned 12 kids from the Oleshkiv children's boarding house being taken to the Simferopol district of Crimea for so-called recreation.
Vykhor added that if the Russian government does not bring the children back to Ukraine under the established conditions, those children will be considered to have been deported.
At the moment, there is a consultation centre operating in the Ombudsman’s Secretariat; it records applications from parents who are searching for their children. Such cases can be reported to this phone number: 0-800-50-17-20.
Background:
- Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights, reported that the occupiers had taken pupils of the Oleshkiv children's boarding school in Kherson Oblast to an asylum in the Simferopol district of Crimea.
- As of the end of July, the National Information Bureau of Ukraine has registered more than 5,600 statements that children have been deported to Russia.
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