Russia is utilizing at least six methods to forcibly relocate Ukrainian children onto its territory, according to Daria Herasymchuk, Ukraine’s President’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Rehabilitation of Children.
From: Euromaiden Press BY MICHELLE BONDAR
One scheme of deportation involves establishing a fake medical diagnosis for a child to justify supposed “treatment” in Russia, Herasymchuk said. Additional scenarios include:
- killing parents and then deporting children;
- seizing minors directly from families;
- separating children during “filtration”;
- creating unlivable occupied zone conditions before proposing kids “vacation” in Russia without return;
- transferring entire Ukrainian institutions with children while barring their extraction.
Herasymchuk made this statement at the Ukrainian-Latvian conference Russia’s War on Children in Riga, Ukrinform reports. The conference aims to support the return of children and family reunification, explore avenues of legal and political accountability, raise public awareness, and foster international support.
Thousands of abducted Ukrainian minors remain in Russian captivity, where they face attempts to forcibly assimilate them — whether by psychological pressure to renounce their Ukrainian identity, illegal adoption into Russian families while their real parents are still alive in Ukraine, or even coercion to become mercenaries for Russia’s war effort.
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