Security Service identifies organisers of Ukrainian orphans deportation to Russia

The Security Service of Ukraine [SSU] has identified "officials" from the "administration" of Donetsk Oblast, who organised forcible deportation of children orphans from Ukraine to Russia under the guise of trips to "summer camps".

Source: the SSU press office

Details: According to the Security Service, the scheme’s organisers are citizens of Russia Dmytro Hartsev and Dmytro Shmelyov, who call themselves "Minister of Health" and "Minister of Revenue and Duties", respectively. They are part of the inner circle of Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk militants; under his "protection", they were appointed to the top ranks of the occupation authorities in July this year.

Apart from changing Ukrainian orphans from Donetsk Oblast, Dmytro Hartsev was also involved in reformatting the oblast's medical industry to meet Russia's needs. The Security Service reports that, on his instructions, the hospitals of the captured part of the Donetsk Oblast are being converted into military hospitals for the treatment of wounded Russian soldiers.

Meanwhile, Dmytro Shmelov deals with issues of rearranging industrial capacities to meet the needs of the military industry and military groups of the Russian Federation.

The Security Service of Ukraine informed them that they both were under suspicion in accordance with Art. 110.2 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The SSU has established their whereabouts and will try to bring them to justice.

Background: 

• Earlier, Russians did not bring back to their parents those children who had been taken from occupied Enerhodar to "summer camps" in Russia and occupied Crimea. These children have been left in these "camps" for an "indefinite time period".
• On November 15, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that according to official data alone, the Russian occupiers had deported 11,000 Ukrainian children to Russia.

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