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Kidnapping and Russification of Ukrainian children. A shocking report by scientists

Report links Putin to ‘systematic’ abduction and ‘Russification’ of Ukrainian children

09:55, 04.12.2024
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Report links Putin to ‘systematic’ abduction and ‘Russification’ of Ukrainian children Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program to take children from occupied Ukrainian territories, erase their Ukrainian identity and place them with Russian families, according to a new report.

Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program to take children from occupied Ukrainian territories, erase their Ukrainian identity and place them with Russian families, according to a new report.

Photo by Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Photo by Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

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Researchers from Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab say they have identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to "Russify" them.

The report released on Tuesday has now prompted renewed calls by Kyiv for Russia to return all deported children.

In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, and his children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the alleged war crime of deportation of Ukrainian children.

Lvova-Belova dismissed the accusations, saying the children were taken from conflict areas for protection and that Moscow's motives were humanitarian. She also told the ICC last year that no children were taken without their parents’ or legal guardians’ consent.

However, the Yale report’s lead researcher, Humanitarian Research Lab Executive Director Nathaniel Raymond, said the study offers evidence that would support additional charges by the ICC against Putin of "forcible transfer" of people from one national and ethnic group to another—a crime against humanity under international law.

‘Patriotic re-education'


Neither Lvova-Belova's office nor the Kremlin responded to requests by Reuters for comments on the report.

Yale’s research—conducted as part of a State Department initiative—said Ukrainian children taken to Russia had been subjected to "pro-state and militarized propaganda," noting it had documented such "patriotic re-education" at all the facilities where the children were processed.

Reuters says it has “documented the transfer of thousands of children to Russian camps, the forced naturalization of Ukrainians and the involvement of Belarus in the program.”

Kyiv estimates around 19,500 children have been taken to Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea since Russia’s invasion, though Lvova-Belova disputes this figure, claiming 380 orphans and children not in the custody of parents were placed with Russian foster families between April and October 2022, Reuters reported.

Following Yale’s report, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office said: “Russia must end its denials of coerced adoption and provide a register of all children from Ukraine it is forcibly detaining. Ukraine will not rest until our children are returned home and those responsible are held accountable.”

Ukraine’s justice minister, Olha Stefanishyna, echoed the vow to “work tirelessly to bring every child back” and urged the international community to increase pressure on Moscow to “stop these horrific crimes.”

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