Ukrainian children deported to Russia are being brought up in a family of Russian citizens, which is a crime.
The Russian occupiers illegally removed 13 orphans and children deprived of parental care from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmyla Denisova on Facebook .
“Six children from the family-type orphanage were taken from Mariupol to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. The mother-educator went for water and did not return, her whereabouts are unknown. The boy also said that the children want to return to Ukraine. Seven children together with their parents were illegally taken from another family-type orphanage in Mariupol to the village of Yahidny in the Rostov region, “Denisova wrote.
The Ombudsman noted that Ukrainian children deported to Russia are being brought up in a family of Russian citizens, which is a crime that falls under the definition of human trafficking under international law.
“The actions of the occupiers violate the state's obligation to protect the rights of children in armed conflict under Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Russia grossly violates Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War occupied territory, “Denisova added.
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights also appealed to the Security Service of Ukraine and the Red Cross Society to assist in the speedy search for and return of children.
“I appeal to the UN Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these violations of Russia's children's rights in Ukraine, “Denisova added.
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Earlier it was reported that women and children were forcibly deported en masse from the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts temporarily occupied by the enemy, where they were placed in concentration camps and then moved to the regions. Russia for settlement.
