Deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children is openly promoted in Russia

This was reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Analysts point out that the filmed videos provide data that more than 150,000 minors were "evacuated" from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"It is unclear exactly how Russian sources are calculating this figure, and Ukrainian officials previously estimated this number to be 6,000 to 8,000," the ISW report emphasizes.

Experts also say that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he is cooperating with the Commissioner of the Russian Federation for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova to ensure that "difficult teenagers" from various regions of Russia and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions are brought to Chechnya for "preventive work" and "military-patriotic education".

In turn, Lvova-Belova constantly advocates the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children and herself adopted a child from Mariupol.

"Forced adoption programs and the deportation of children under the guise of vacation and rehabilitation schemes likely form the backbone of a massive Russian depopulation campaign that may amount to a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide," added the Institute for the Study of War.