The US embassy in Kyiv cited Ukraine’s foreign ministry as saying 2,389 Ukrainian children have been “illegally removed” from the Russian-controlled territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and taken to Russia.
March 22, 2022
The US embassy in Kyiv cited Ukraine’s foreign ministry as saying 2,389 Ukrainian children have been “illegally removed” from the Russian-controlled territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and taken to Russia, reports the Guardian.
The embassy said:
This is not assistance. It is kidnapping.
Kyiv has accused Moscow of illegally deporting children from Mariupol amid reports that Russian troops were directing civilians towards the Russian-controlled breakaway eastern regions of Donbas.
In a statement on Monday, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said Russian forces had forcibly deported 2,389 children from Donetsk and Luhansk, and called the move “a gross violation of international law”.
From Iryna Venediktova, Ukraine’s prosecutor general:
The Guardian could not verify these figures.
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