Invaders took out from Ukraine to the Russian Federation group of children whose parents were killed by Russians during full-scale war - Denisova

This was announced by the Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova.

The other day, a group of Ukrainian teenagers 14-15 years old was brought to one of the charitable foundations of the Russian city of Vladimir from Donetsk and Luhansk regions. There is information that their parents were killed by the Russians during the war against Ukraine. Fund employees were forbidden to search for relatives of children.

"The occupying country of the Russian Federation grossly violates the norms of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Population in Time of War, which prohibits the forced resettlement or deportation of persons from the occupied territory and Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which establishes the obligation of states to ensure the rights of children in conditions of armed conflicts", the Ombudsman said.

Lyudmyla Denisova asks the SSU, the Red Cross Society of Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Center for Peace Development to assist in the speedy search and return of children. In addition, she appeals to the UN Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of violations of the rights of the child.