When Russia strangles Mariupola city that has ceased to exist as such and where corpses are piling up in the streets as a result of the bombs that have reduced hundreds of buildings to rubble, Ukraine has denounced it Forced deportations of children from this city to Russia. Another of the cruellest consequences of the war.
The situation of millions of Ukrainian minors, many of whom have been orphaned as a result of the war, is critical, and both Ukraine and the West are concerned that criminal trade organizations are taking advantage of the critical situation and vulnerability of minors. to trade with them.
The UN has already announced that it will investigate these reports of deportations and warns of the number of children killed in war to the 115 according to official figures (although there are probably many more).
Unicef in turn ensures that every second child becomes a refugee because of the war in Ukraine. Of the three million refugees who fled the conflict caused by the invasion of Russia, about 1.45 million are minors, many of whom left Ukraine without relatives, the spokesman for the aforementioned organization said last week: James Elder.
The risk of sexual exploitation
Elder warned that there were fears that criminal trafficking organizations would exploit this context and the vulnerability of children, as has happened in other recent armed conflicts.
what’s more Children are at risk of violence and sexual exploitation, Therefore, there are volunteers who work 24 hours a day at refugee arrival points in neighboring countries to spot suspicious situations.
According to estimates by the UN Agency for the Protection of Children, every day more than 70,000 minors They leave Ukraine to escape the war.