At least 16,207 Ukrainian children were illegally deported to Russia by invaders
The verified number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia is 16,207, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets told Ukrinform.“These are children that I, as the ombudsman, know about. I know what Ukrainian city these children are from and where they roughly stay in the territory of the Russian Federation,” Lubinets said.
According to Lubinets, the exact number of deported children could be much higher. “We assume that this number reaches about 150,000 children. Russia says that they keep 733,000 Ukrainian children in their territory. However, in our opinion, this figure is exaggerated,” Lubinets said. Most children were taken to Russia from the temporarily occupied regions, namely the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, and Crimea.
