Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control is war crime, UN says
By Laura GozziRussia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators have said.
While the transfers were supposed to be temporary "most became prolonged", with both parents and children facing "an array of obstacles in establishing contact", UN investigators wrote. The burden of contacting their parents fell primarily to the transferred children as the adults faced "considerable logistical, financial, and security challenges" in finding or retrieving their children, the report says.
The forced deportations of Ukrainian children "violate international humanitarian law, and amount to a war crime", concludes the report.
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