The UN described their transfer to Russia as “war crime”. The United States again on Wednesday accused Moscow of transferred Ukrainian children to Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, some of whom were offered for adoption.
“It’s disgusting, it’s horrible,” said White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, for whom “Russia is waging a war not only against the Ukrainian military, but against the Ukrainian people.”
“As the president has indicated, Russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine,” he added.
Children’s names changed to Russian
The White House press release specifically refers to an investigation by the Financial Times, published on Wednesday, which said four Ukrainian children flown to Russia and then offered for adoption on the site had been identified and located. usynovite.ru.
The children are aged from 8 to 15 years. According to the newspaper, the name of one of them has been changed to Russian, and the page does not mention their Ukrainian origins.
Ukraine is demanding the return of nearly 20,000 minors “deported or forcibly displaced” in Russia since its attack began on February 24, 2022.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin and its commissioner for children’s rights, Marija Lvova-Belovabecause of these alleged illegal deportations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with AFP in May that he plans to make the return to Ukraine of thousands of children transferred to Russia one of the priority issues at the international conference on peace in Ukraine, planned for mid-June in Switzerland.