UN Human Rights Council condemns Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children 

This is stated on the Twitter account of the UN Human Rights Council.

The resolution was voted in favor by 28 of the 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council, with 17 abstentions, including India and Kazakhstan, and two – China and Eritrea – voting against.

According to European Pravda, the resolution, co-authored by 13 members of the UN Human Rights Council, including Ukraine, and more than a dozen other UN member states that are not members of the Council, "condemns in the strongest possible terms the human rights violations and abuses resulting from the continuing military invasion by the Russian Federation of Ukraine."

Separately, the document calls on Russia to "cease the unlawful forcible transfer and deportation of civilians and other protected persons within Ukraine or to the Russian Federation, as appropriate, including children."

Moscow is also required to provide humanitarian organizations with "unimpeded, immediate, sustained and safe access" to Ukrainians who have already been deported, as well as reliable and comprehensive information about their number and whereabouts.

Separately, the UN Human Rights Council extended for a year the mandate of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the situation in Ukraine, which in March presented its final report on human rights violations as a result of full-scale Russian aggression.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomed the decision of the UN Human Rights Council.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the resolution "Situation of human rights in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression", which extends the mandate of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry for one year to continue its investigation of all violations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and related crimes in the context of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine," the statement said.

Ukraine expresses its gratitude to the member states of the UN Human Rights Council that supported this document.

"The Commission's continued independent investigation and documentation of the facts of egregious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and international crimes will help bring Russian war criminals to justice and ensure justice for the victims of Russian aggression," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry added.

For reference: The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on violations in Ukraine was established in accordance with UN Human Rights Council Resolution 49/1 "Situation of human rights in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggressionю" During the year of its work, the Commission established the horrific and indisputable facts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine and prepared two reports.

Based on the results of its work, the Commission concluded that the evidence gathered by its investigators shows that the occupying Russian authorities committed numerous violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in all regions of Ukraine that were or are under the temporary occupation of the Russian Federation.

Many of these violations, including intentional killings, attacks on civilians, illegal deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, forced displacement and deportation of children, amount to war crimes.

• Earlier, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of the illegal deportation of thousands of children from Ukraine.

• The deportation of children was condemned by the parliaments of Slovakia and Poland, as well as Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.

• On March 18, the head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyik, said that law enforcement agencies were investigating 16,000 cases of deportation of Ukrainian children. In early March, experts noted that Russia had deported about 730,000 Ukrainian children.