On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova, alleging criminal responsibility for the unlawful deportation and transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.

Feb 14, 2023 · Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia to raise them as their own. Thousands of children were seized from schools and orphanages in Ukraine by Russian...

Mar 16, 2023 · Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators have said. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said there was...

Aug 24, 2023 · Credible reports have confirmed a well-prepared plan for the deportation of Ukraine’s children to the Russian Federation, and the Secretary-General’s annual report on children and armed...

The United States said Wednesday it has evidence that “hundreds of thousands” of Ukrainian citizens have been interrogated, detained and forcibly deported to Russia in “a series of horrors”...

Dec 3, 2024 · President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and senior Kremlin officials “intentionally and directly” authorized a program of coerced fostering and adoption of Ukrainian children during the war in...

Jan 15, 2025 · Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred from Ukraine to Russia and Russian-controlled territory. 1 Many of these children have been adopted by Russian families and become Russian citizens.

Nov 3, 2022 · Ukrainian survivors of forced deportation to Russia have told Newsweek of the confusion and terror of what leaders in Kyiv and international human rights groups have described as an ongoing...

Mar 23, 2023 · Earlier this month, on March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the country's children's commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the...

Apr 6, 2023 · Hundreds have been killed in indiscriminate attacks, schools have been disrupted, some two million have been made refugees or are living in extreme poverty. The deportation of children simply...