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21.03.2022
The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry has accused Russia of deporting more than 2,000 Ukrainian children from the Certain Areas of Donetsk Region and Luhansk Region (CADLR) to Russia illegally.
The relevant statement was made by the ministrys press service, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
According to the information received, on March 19, 2022, the Russian occupation forces illegally deported to the territory of the Russian Federation 2,389 children, who were in the occupied districts of Donetsk Region and Luhansk Region. The forced displacement of civilians to the territory of the aggressor state, namely children, shows signs of abduction. Such actions are a gross violation of the international law, in particular the international humanitarian law, the ministry noted.
Ukrainian diplomats called on the international community to immediately react to the illegal displacement of children, as well as increase pressure on Russia to make it stop the barbaric war against the Ukrainian people.
The facts of the abduction of children, as well as hundreds of other facts of crimes committed by Russian occupiers against civilians in Ukraine are being thoroughly investigated by law enforcement agencies. The perpetuators of these crimes will be brought to justice, the ministry stressed.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3435960-over-2000-children-illegally-deported-to-russia-from-cadlr-foreign-ministry.html
mopinko
(69,811 posts)we should be taking dna samples from refugees. voluntarily.
there will be many orphans, but 1st we have to be sure they are actually orphans.
Lonestarblue
(9,881 posts)The US and the EU need to push the United Nations to do its job. It has been toothless in this illegal war. A Bloomberg writer argued today that the UN could expel Russia from the Security Council and indeed from the UN. And back in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the UN took a stance.
The invasion and Iraq's subsequent refusal to withdraw from Kuwait by a deadline mandated by the United Nations[18] led to a direct military intervention by a United Nations-authorized coalition of forces led by the United States. These events came to be known as the first Gulf War, eventually resulting in the forced expulsion of Iraqi troops from Kuwait and the Iraqis. (From wikipedia)
The UN authorized forces, under US leadership, to protect and liberate Kuwait. Why have they not given Putin a date to withdraw from Ukraine? Why have they not authorized forces to protect Ukraine? If the UN is supposed to be the worlds arbitrator for keeping peace, why is it not doing so? Meanwhile Putin just keeps murdering more and kore Ukrainians and stealing their children. Putin will not stop until he is forced to stop. He is at his weakest now when efforts are stalling in Ukraine. Its time for the US and the rest of NATO to push the UN into fulfilling the same role it had in Kuwait.