PACE: Deportation of Ukrainian children shows evidence of genocide

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has demanded the safe return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia or the territory it temporarily occupies, said in the adopted resolution.

PACE also demands punishment of those who carried out forcible deportation at all levels — pointing out that the documented evidence of this practice matches with the international definition of genocide. These deportations of Ukrainian children were “clearly being planned and organized in a systematic way” as state policy, the Assembly said, and had the abhorrent aim of “annihilating every link to and feature of their Ukrainian identity.”

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