Russian Families Illegally Adopt Ukrainian Children Forcibly Deported from Occupied Districts – Denisova

According to Russian propagandist mass media, at least 27 Ukrainian orphans were deported and brought to the Russian town of Aprelevka in the suburbs of Moscow for illegal temporarily adoption by Russian family.

“Currently we have no data on whether these children have the status of orphans, whether they are deprived of parental support and whether they have any relatives willing to accept the custody. We also do not have any information about accommodations, their health condition and their personal consent for such adoption”, Liudmyla Denisova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, emphasized.

Denisova emphasized that involuntary deportation of Ukrainian children by Russian troops constitutes a war crime and may be qualified as the human trafficking under the international law. "The actions committed by Russian troops are a clear violation of the Russian government’s obligation to protect the rights of children during the military conflicts provided by the Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War that prohibits are forcible transfer or deportation of civilian population from occupied territories”, Denisova added.

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