Ukraine has confirmed that the russians adopted 386 Ukrainian children who were deported to the aggressor country. Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets announced this on the air of the news marathon.
"We have confirmed numbers. 386 children − it is a confirmed fact that they were placed in russian families, and either the procedure began for them or the adoption procedure ended," Lubinets emphasized.
He stressed that terminology is very important in this matter, since there is a difference between adoption and temporary custody.
Lubinets recalled that the russian Commissioner for Child Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, at a meeting with the russian dictator vladimir putin, herself said that she had adopted a child from Ukraine. That is, she herself admitted that she committed a crime. But after receiving an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, Lvov-Belova already began to say that she did not adopt a Ukrainian child, but allegedly took temporary protection as temporary custody.
"Adoption of children of countries in a state of international military conflict − this is how war is called, according to international humanitarian law, − is prohibited. Therefore, these terms are very important for us, it is very important for us to establish the legal fact that the russians adopt Ukrainian children. Then this clearly falls under the signs of the military crime of genocide, which should be interpreted as a war crime that the top military-political leadership of the russian federation makes. And this is what we are doing," Lubinets emphasized.
Commenting on the return home of 11 children illegally held by russian invaders in the temporarily captured part of the Kherson Region, as reported by Ukrainian News Agency, the Ombudsman said that this had been worked on for several months, and expressed hope that there would soon be more such positive news.
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