Thus, they are sheltered from the Armed Forces by Ukrainian children.
Russian occupiers force children temporarily in the occupied territories to start training, despite active hostilities in the region. In particular, such a case was recorded in Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, said Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova.
children, go to school, “she said.
The occupiers are taking such steps to complicate the operation to liberate the city by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to provoke victims with their victims to discredit and accuse the Ukrainian side.
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” In this case, the children will actually become hostages and human shields for the troops of the Russian aggressor, “- said Denisova, pointing to the impossibility of starting the educational process in the region.
She stressed that the occupying country puts endangering the right to life of children, as guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and stressed that Such actions are in themselves a war crime.
The death of relatives, destroyed houses and schools, the cold of basements, the fear of shelling, loneliness and orphanhood have become a new horrible reality for children all over Ukraine. How does international law protect children in armed conflict? What war crimes against children are committed by the Russian army in Ukraine? What are the mechanisms for prosecuting Russian war criminals? Read “Children Under Russian Sight”
