The head of the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to investigate cases of violation of children’s right reported on September 1, 2022, that Ukrainian specialized agencies and law enforcement agencies identified 7,000 children deported to the Russian Federation (out of 557,000), 53 of whom have already been returned to Ukraine.
Source: Pavlo Sushko, head of the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to investigate cases of violation of the children’s right
“At least 557,000 Ukrainian children were taken to the Russian Federation. According to reports from open sources of the occupiers, they plan to grant them Russian citizenship in a simplified procedure and new adoptive parents. Ukraine is checking this information, working to establish the verification of this data: 7,000 children have already been identified and succeeded return 53 children.”
Sushko also added that, according to the current data of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, more than a thousand children have been affected, of which 380 have died and 736 have been injured since the beginning of the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
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