Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
It became known from the aggressor's media that a bill on simplified registration of orphans and children deprived of parental care has already been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
These changes provide for the accelerated acquisition of citizenship and documents of the Russian Federation by children who were forcibly transferred from Ukraine.
Representatives of the State Duma of Russia note that the bill is aimed at enabling Russian citizens to adopt Ukrainian children, as the law currently prohibits the placement of foreign children in russian families.
The adoption of such a law will significantly complicate the ability of children to return to Ukraine and will violate their right to maintain contact with relatives in Ukraine.
Today, the media of the occupying country report that almost 200,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia.
They are deported to all regions of Russia. The living conditions of the children and their state of health are currently unknown.
By its actions, Russia grossly violates the provisions of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which prohibits the forced relocation or deportation of persons from the occupied territories.
The forcible transfer of children from one national group to another is genocide under Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigate Human Rights Violations during the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of the Russia’s crime of genocide and violations of the children rights in Ukraine.