Russian forces plan to abduct another 750 minors in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region – governor

The Russian occupying forces are reportedly preparing another 750 children for deportation in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region in Ukraine's east and have already started forming groups.

Rubryka reports, referring to the statement of the Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Artem Lysohor.

"Currently, we're receiving reports that the invaders are forming groups of, as they say, 'pioneers' to abduct another 750 children. There is still no information about previously deported children. We are trying to document all the children and use our channels to receive information about their return or whereabouts," Lysohor emphasized.

As the head of the region stressed, the Russia-appointed occupying "authorities" reported that doctors from the Russian Federation claim the presence of "pathologies" in 70% of schoolchildren. This is the reason for sending them to Russia for so-called treatment.

"In Stanytsia Luhanska, the Russians offer children to go to recreation camps with their mothers, scaring them with 'shelling from Ukraine.' They blackmail them by saying, ' If the child does not get better, we will not let them go to school,'" said Lysohor.

Rubryka has already reported that the Russian invaders wanted to take almost 300 children from Russia-occupied Berdiansk in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region to Russian Chuvashia.

The mayor of the currently occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, Ivan Fedorov, stressed that 48 children were reported to be sent away, and others are going to be taken out in several shifts.

Background 

As Rubryka reported, as of June 20, 19,499 children had already been abducted by Russia and the so-called republics, of which only 373 minors were returned home.

We remind you that "Children of War" is a platform where you can report and find all the information about children who suffered from the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine.

The Prosecutor General's Office reported that information on a war crime against a child could be provided through a single evidence hub: warcrimes.gov.ua and by phone: +380961004438, +380683235856.

On April 27, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution recognizing the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia as genocide.

On March 17, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Russian President Putin and Russian children's advisor Lvova-Belova. They are accused of illegally deporting children from Ukraine to the Russian Fedeperiod from February 24, 2022.