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Number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia exceeded 50,000

The number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has exceeded 50,000, estimates by the Ukrainian Institute of Strategic Research and Security show.

According to human rights defender Pavlo Lysyansky, there are several categories of children at risk of being deported by the occupying state, mainly orphans, those temporarily left without parental care and those who were taken from their families after the death of a parent, caused by the forced mobilisation that Russia carried out in the occupied territories.

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“Commissions have been set up in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic to deprive parents of their parental rights and take away their children. Militias of the self-proclaimed republic know in which family one of the parents has fallen, they come to the house, there is a mother with three children, they tell her – ‘No, you can’t provide for three, so give one away’. Once the military aggression started, this category of children became an object of interest for the occupying forces and they started taking them all away, deporting them,” Lysyansky stressed.

Pavlo Lysyansky went on to say that Russia has developed a mechanism for the adoption of Ukrainian children, which have been illegally deported. He stated that the Russians took a child over the age of one from the occupied territory, then appointed a Russian guardian and issued a passport to a citizen of the Russian Federation, regardless of the child’s age, with a change of name, which extremely complicates the search for abducted children.

On Wednesday, the European Commission proposed the ninth package of sanctions against Russia. The sanctions would include 200 individuals and institutions. Among them are those involved in the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children deep into Russia.

Russia's barbaric bombing continues in Ukraine.

We are making the Kremlin pay for its cruelty and stepping up our pressure.

Today we propose the 9th package of sanctions.

It complements the existing sanctions that are already biting hard.#StandWithUkraine

— European Commission ?? (@EU_Commission) December 7, 2022

Ukrainian human rights defenders managed to identify the places where deported Ukrainian children are being held. These include three institutions in Bashkortostan, three in Kursk and one each in the Russian regions of Orlovsky and Lipetsk.

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