Russians take 17 children with disabilities from Donetsk Oblast to Moscow district

The Russians have taken 17 children with disabilities from the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast – allegedly for rehabilitation. 

Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said that they were sent to the Ogonyok rehabilitation centre near Moscow.

Lubinets added that the children, who have diseases of nervous system and musculoskeletal system, were deported by a Russian Ministry of Defence plane. 

"During 2023, according to the Russian Federation, 150 Ukrainian children who currently live in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were ‘treated and rehabilitated’ in this way," he said.

He added that this was facilitated by Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights.

Lubinets said that under the pretext of the need for medical care, children receive new passports – Russian ones. 

Earlier, it was reported that Ukraine had brought back the 12-year-old son of a military officer who had been living under occupation for more than a year and a half.

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