Russia, Belarus will continue to take children from Ukraine, Lukashenko says

Lukashenko's press service reported the information.

"We have been planning and will continue to do so (to take children out of Ukraine - ed.)! And not only will we plan, but we will support the children... And we agreed with (Russian President) Putin that we would finance these trips from the union budget. We have been doing this and will continue to do so, regardless of any reproaches," the Belarusian leader said.

At the same time, he repeated the Russian narrative about the alleged transportation of Ukrainian children abroad for organ donation.

Lukashenko said that children from the temporarily occupied Donbas in Belarus are cared for by the foundation of Belarusian paralympic champion Alexei Talay.

• In July, the Belarusian Red Cross was accused of mediating the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.

• Russia deports thousands of Ukrainian children, erases their identity and forcibly militarizes them

• Russian forces took teenagers from the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region to military camps in Russia. The teenagers are being trained there, among other things.