Russia plans to deport 10,000 abducted Ukrainian children to camps
Russian gauleiters in occupied Ukrainian territory plan to deport more than 10,000 children to camps in Dagestan, Chuvashia, and the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation, according to the Center of National Resistance (CNS) on August 2.
The abducted children are currently being subjected to ideological brainwashing via propaganda concerts and "educational events", CNS said.
Children often become victims of crimes at the camps. A case was recorded in a children's camp in Anapa, Russia, where four children from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk Oblast were sexually assaulted by a pedophile.
"This is the policy of the genocide of Ukrainians, where the Russians deliberately destroy an entire generation on an industrial scale at the level of a state program," the CNS said.
It’s not only top or local collaborators that are involved in the program to deport Ukrainian children, the CNS said, but also teachers, doctors, artists, and other workers at the camps. The project is overseen by the United Russia party of dictator Vladimir Putin.
Earlier, the commissioner for children's rights of the aggressor country of Russia, wanted war criminal Maria Lvova-Belova, stated that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupiers have abducted more than 700,000 children.
Deportation of Ukrainian children — what is known
The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant on March 17 for Putin and Lvova-Belova on suspicion of committing war crimes in connection with the deportation of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on April 27 recognizing the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia as genocide.
According to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, the Russians have taken almost 20,000 children from the territories of Ukraine they occupy, and approximately 6,000 are being held in re-education camps.
The number of Ukrainian children illegally deported to Russia may have reached 16-300,000, said the European Parliament. MEPs believe that the Russians started abducting Ukrainian children in 2014, ever since the occupation of Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
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