Russia says more than 300,000 Ukrainian children “deported”

Sunday, 19 June 2022, 09:35

Roman Petrenko  – Sunday, 19 June 2022, 09:35

The Russian military has said more than 307,000 children have been deported from Ukraine to Russia since the start of the war.

Source: Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defence Management Centre of the Russian Federation, quoted by Interfax

Details: According to Mizintsev, a total of 1,936,911 Ukrainians have been deported to Russia since the beginning of the war; 307,423 of whom are children.

The Russians claim to have received more than 2.7 million applications from those wishing to move to Russia from more than 2,000 settlements in Ukraine.