More than 23 thousand Ukrainian citizens are being held by the Russian occupiers in temporary accommodation centers in different regions of Russia. Of these, 6127 are children. Most of our people were taken from Ukraine to remote regions under the pretext of “evacuation”.
In reality, the Russians did not care about their safety and comfort at all. The main goal of the invaders is to assimilate as many Ukrainians as possible into Russian society, to use them as cheap but reliable labor. Moreover, the Kremlin plans to increase the number of such temporary accommodation centers from 314 to more than 400 in the near future. For this purpose, a corresponding amount is provided in the “federal” budget of the terrorist country.
A blatant crime of the Putin regime in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine is the export of Ukrainian children to Russia. One of the many examples is that the Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, together with the occupation authorities, took four children from the Oleshky Orphanage for Children with Special Needs located in the Kherson region to Penza.
International law prohibits the transfer of people from the occupied territories, regardless of their age or health status. Forced displacement of civilians without good reason may be considered a war crime, and in some cases a crime against humanity. Therefore, we urge you to share all information about the crimes of the occupiers and collaborators in order to stop this terror and restore peaceful life.