Ukraine has announced the opening of more than 3,000 criminal cases related to Russia’s crimes against children in the country. These crimes include murder, mutilation, kidnapping, expulsion, deportation and sexual violence against children. According to Yulia Usenko, Head of the Department for Protection of Children’s Interests and Combating Violence of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, these acts are often associated with torture and illegal deprivation of liberty. More than 3,200 criminal cases document these crimes.
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Since the major Russian invasion of Ukraine in February last year, extensive evidence of alleged Russian war crimes and human rights violations has emerged, documented by Ukrainian authorities, human rights groups, international organizations and news agencies. Russia has repeatedly denied allegations of torture and human rights violations. According to Usenko, prosecutors also documented cases of torture of 75 children by Russian forces, 69 of whom were in the village of Yahidne in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, where they were held in conditions considered torture.
Isolated cases of child torture were also reported in the regions south of Kherson and northeast of Kharkiv. Children were deprived of their freedom and subjected to physical torture, often alongside adults. Some children were arrested on charges of disseminating information about the movements of Russian forces and their military equipment. These allegations arose after the recapture of Ukrainian territories by Russian occupation forces. After the recapture of some Ukrainian territories previously occupied by Russia, allegations of child torture came to light, including 13 cases of sexual violence against children, the most recent of which was a fouryearold girl.
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Russian President and Russian official Maria LvovaBelova are accused of plotting to deport Ukrainian children to Russia
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian official Maria LvovaBelova, who are accused of plotting to deport Ukrainian children to Russia. The Russian government defends these measures by claiming it is protecting children, while Ukraine claims the deportations were illegal. At least 545 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 injured since the war began, although these numbers could be higher.
Ukraine’s representative to the United Nations stated that Russia has been carrying out mass abductions and targeted indoctrination of Ukrainian children since 2014. The U.S. State Department has imposed assessments on individuals and organizations involved in the rendition and ordered the deportation of Ukrainian children and political movements involved in facilitating these actions and their takeover by Russian families. Sanctions have already been imposed on LvovaBelova for her involvement in the scheme.
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