By the end of 2023, the Russians will send another 10,000 Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories to the Russian Federation

By the end of 2023, another 10,000 Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions will be sent to the Russian Federation.

This was reported by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets.

According to him, the Russians will take the children to Moscow and St. Petersburg along the so-called cultural enlightenment routes. In addition to performances, parks and excursions around the city, small Ukrainians are taken to specially created museum expositions “Feat of the People” and are encouraged to participate in military quests.

Contrary to the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Russian propaganda machine works non-stop. Having tested various methods of eradicating self-identity and belonging to the Ukrainian people among the population of Crimea since 2014, the Russians have now focused their attention on Ukrainian children who, together with their parents, were forced to fall under the rule of the Russian aggressor, Lubinets emphasized.

Russians often use threats and harassment to take children to the Russian Federation, he noted. The Ombudsman emphasized that “by forcing Ukrainian children to enter the Russian educational and cultural space, the Russian Federation continues its violent genocidal policy against Ukraine.”