US Ambassador to OSCE: Russia has taken up to 2,000 children from Ukraine since beginning of 2023
Russia has abducted and deported up to 2,000 children from Ukraine since the beginning of 2023.
Source: Michael Carpenter, US Ambassador to the OSCE, during a special meeting of the Permanent Council in Vienna, as Ukrinform reports
Details: According to the Ambassador, Russia has been abducting children from their homes and families en masse in recent weeks, moving them to Russian territory under the guise of evacuation.
In addition, the US Ambassador pointed out that lists of children who should be involved in the war upon reaching the age of majority are being compiled in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk.
Quote: "Children born in 2005 and 2006 are subject to mandatory military registration. Such advance planning to use Ukrainian children as cannon fodder in Russia's war is just plain evil," Carpenter said.
Details: Dmytro Lubinets, Verkhovna Rada [the Ukrainian Parliament – ed.] Commissioner for Human Rights, who had recently met with Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, said during the 24/7 national joint newscast that the Russian Federation does not want to keep children who want to go to Ukraine.
According to him, during one of the meetings, Moskalkova said that she had a list of children who wanted to go back home. The Russian ombudsman did not specify the number of children, but added that if there are appeals from relatives, she will facilitate bringing back those children.
"I would like to appeal to all of Ukraine, relatives, parents, guardians, grandparents, etc. If you have information that your children are in the territory of the Russian Federation and you want to take them back, please contact the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights," said Dmytro Lubinets.
Background: In November 2022, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that according to official data alone, Russia had abducted 11,000 Ukrainian children from Ukraine.
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