It could be several thousand children.
Already in June, the UN, which was advancing to investigate this subject, warned of the supposed sending of minors, kidnapped from Ukrainian orphanages and “forcibly deported” to Russia.
A new international investigation has just been opened.
Russia's open effort to adopt Ukrainian children and raise them as Russians is no longer a secret, says the Associated Press in a river investigation that lists a whole host of new evidence of the "Russification of Ukrainian children" .
According to the agency, thousands of children were found in the basements of war-torn cities like Mariupol and in orphanages in the separatist territories of Donbass.
And many of them today would be raised in families in Russia.
"More than 307,000 children forcibly transferred"
Already in June, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, had assured that these children were offered for adoption to Russian families, without however being able to confirm these accusations or give the number of children concerned.
In August, AFP, like the intellectuals and child psychiatrists who signed a forum in
Le Monde
, argued that between “February 24 and June 18, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, more than 1.9 million Ukrainians, of which more than 307,000 children would have been forcibly transferred to the Russian Federation, without guarantees or external controls on their living conditions and their future”.
At the same time, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released the figure of 200,000 children, when, on July 20, the defender of Ukrainian rights, Dmytro Lubinets, assured that 108 of them, originating from the Donetsk region, had already been adopted by Russian families.
"War of extermination led by Russia against Ukraine, deliberate massacres of civilians, torture, rape and this that democratic leaders do not talk about enough: the deportation of Ukrainian children and their adoption by the Russians is a crime of genocide according to the 1948 Convention”, denounces this Friday in a tweet the specialist Nicolas Tenzer, video in support.
War of extermination waged by #Russia against #Ukraine, deliberate massacres of civilians, torture, rape, & this that democratic leaders don't talk about enough: the deportation of Ukrainian children & their adoption by Russians is a crime of #genocide under the 1948 Agreement.
https://t.co/z7ooSIBRK0
— Nicolas Tenzer (@NTenzer) October 14, 2022
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Russia has not ratified the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, the only transnational legal framework allowing intercountry adoption procedures.
The decrees signed by Vladimir Putin on May 25 and July 11 simplifying the process of obtaining Russian citizenship for Ukrainians – including children – even facilitate their adoption.
In March, the United Nations had already drawn attention to this risk, while some 91,000 orphans were still living in Ukrainian boarding schools.
Like the UN, UNICEF documents this "Russification of Ukrainian children" while international humanitarian law classifies the massive forced deportation of people during a conflict as a "war crime".
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