Russia to fast-track adoptions of Ukrainian children 'forcibly deported' after their parents were killed by Putin's troops, authorities say

Authored by businessinsider.com and submitted by yurient

Ukrainian officials say more than 121,000 children have been forcibly deported to Russia.

Russia is changing legislation to allow for the fast-tracked adoption of these children, they allege.

The Ukrainian Presidential Advisor on Children's Rights accused Russia of violating UN laws.

Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. Loading Something is loading. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

The Ukrainian Ombudswoman for Human Rights has said that the Russian government is crafting legislation to allow Russians to adopt Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia by military forces.

She has also stated that, so far, over 121,000 children have been "deported" by the Russian government.

In a statement on Facebook, Lyudmila Denisova said that the Russian Federation is changing legislation to allow "the accelerated procedure of adoption of children from Donbas."

She added that Ukrainian officials have no information on the children that are allegedly being processed for adoption by Russians.

"Now the Russians, firing rockets and tanks at the homes of Ukrainian citizens, kill parents and kidnap our children in the occupied territories of East and South Ukraine," she said.

Also writing on Facebook, the Ukrainian Presidential Advisor on Children's Rights Herasymchuk Daria said that "Such adoption is a violation of the child's rights. In particular, this violates the rules of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child."

The first cases of deportation to Russia were reported at the end of March, when Pyotr Andryuschenko, an assistant to Mariupol's mayor, said that 4,000 to 4,500 Mariupol residents were "forcibly" moved, without their passports, to the Russian city of Taganrog.

On April 8, The UN stated that of the 1626 Ukrainians officially killed so far, 63 were children.

However, it believes these figures are far lower than the actual casualty toll.Ukrainian forces have previously accused the Russian military of taking children hostage and using them as human shields.

Locke66 on April 9th, 2022 at 12:42 UTC »

From the United Nations Definition - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

This is yet another way that Russia meets the definition of genocide against Ukraine. They need to be sanctioned to the most extreme ends possible at this point.

NarrMaster on April 9th, 2022 at 11:48 UTC »

This is one of the definitions of genocide.

Kn_yan on April 9th, 2022 at 11:44 UTC »

That's called trafficking where I am from.