Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Kateryna Pavlichenko noted on December 2, 2022, that human trafficking caused new challenges because, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russian soldiers displaced more than 11.5 million Ukrainians within Ukraine and abroad.
Source: Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Kateryna Pavlichenko
“In the conditions of a full-scale invasion, a full-scale war, and the humanitarian crisis that we have today, the problem of human trafficking takes on a new urgency. Today, we face new challenges – a humanitarian crisis, the movement of millions of Ukrainians abroad in search of a calmer, safer place, as well as such a problem as the forced relocation and deportation of Ukrainians, in particular children, to the Russian Federation, Belarus and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,” stressed the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
According to Kateryna Pavlichenko, more than 11.5 million people have been displaced within the state and abroad since the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation.
“If Western countries provide assistance to Ukrainians, Russia forcibly deports our citizens, forces them to undergo filtering measures and actually deports them under the guise of so-called rescue. This is a gross violation of international humanitarian law, and Ukraine raises this issue at all levels,” noted the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
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