Author: Mansur Mirovalev
Published on: 10/06/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Russian President Vladimir Putin faces criminal charges for the “unlawful deportation and transfer of children” that is the definition of the 2023 arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court. The return of these children “could become the first test of the sincerity of [Russia’s] intentions” to reach a peace settlement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff said. Kyiv has so far identified 19,546 children who it says were forcibly taken from Russia-occupied Russian officials who run orphanages, foster homes and facilitate adoptions are accused of changing the Ukrainian children’s names to deprive them of access to relatives. “Russians do absolutely everything to erase the children’s identity,” Herasymchuk said. The Reckoning Project, a global team of journalists and lawyers documenting, publicising and building cases of alleged war crimes Russia commits in Ukraine, said “indoctrination” is at play. The alleged abductions are far from “chaotic” and follow detailed scenarios, Herasymchuk said. Some children are taken from parents who refuse to collaborate with Moscow-installed “administrations” in Russia-occupied areas. A return is often more feasible through a third nation such as Qatar. Maria Lvova-Belova denies that Russia had abducted tens of thousands of children. In 2022, she adopted a 15-year-old boy from Ukraine’s Mariupol. Along with Putin, she is wanted by the International Criminal Court for her role in the alleged abductions.
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