The first public case of the abduction of a Ukrainian child was the story of Russian official Maria Lvovskaya-Belova.
Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets spoke about this.
“The Russian authorities began to create a PR campaign, where it became fashionable to steal a Ukrainian child… We began to receive information that representatives of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the government, heads of the regional level began to look for a Ukrainian child for the so-called “adoption,” Lubinets noted.< /p>
The Ombudsman recalled that the first public case of the abduction of a Ukrainian child was the story of Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova. She took into her family a boy kidnapped by the invaders from Mariupol.
Later, Russian State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov took two Ukrainian children into his family.
“…Here we saw the complete and complete criminal offense of the abduction of two Ukrainian children. Their last names were changed. Margarita Prokopenko became Marina Mironova. They changed her place of birth, her certificate… As for the boy Ilya, whom they took with Margarita, after he was examined in Moscow and found to have a disease, we assume that Mironov’s family decided to abandon him because he was sick. But we cannot establish what happened next with the boy… We cannot find out what happened to them and where he was transported,” Lubinets noted.
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights emphasized that Ukraine is negotiating with partners on the return of other kidnapped Ukrainian children living in the families of representatives of the authorities of the aggressor country.
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Reuters has published a large-scale investigation into the abduction of Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories by Russian officials and collaborators. The agency's journalists spent six months investigating the fates of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, orphans or divorced from their families.
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According to the Financial Times, the children were abducted from boarding schools and separated from their official guardians and relatives, almost all of them come from regions in the south and east of Ukraine. They ended up in the Tula and Orenburg regions and in Russian-occupied Crimea in the Russian Federation. specifically for the abduction of children.
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According to Ukrainian government data collected on the Children of War website, more than 19,500 children were deported to Russia. For information on the deportation of Ukrainian children to the territory of the Russian Federation, read the LB.ua article “Deportation of Ukrainian Children to Russia: Chronology of the Crime”.
- Only about 400 children abducted by Russians were returned to Ukraine.
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