Deportation of Ukrainian children: two Russian women close to Putin are served with suspicion notices
Kyiv • UNN
Two Russian women close to the Kremlin are suspected of deporting two young Ukrainian children aged 11 months and almost 2 years from occupied Kherson to Moscow under the pretext of medical treatment.
Ukrainian prosecutors have served two Russians close to the Kremlin with a notice of suspicion of deportation of two Ukrainian children. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Based on the evidence collected, the juvenile prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office served suspicion notices to two Russian citizens close to the president of the aggressor state over the deportation of two young children from Ukraine
Reportedly, one of the suspects is a member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, who is a confidant of the leader of the A Just Russia party, and the other is his wife.
Their actions were classified as a violation of the laws and customs of war (Article 28(2)(1) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the investigation, at the end of August 2022, the suspects arrived in occupied Kherson under the guise of an official visit to identify specific children for deportation and examined the children of the occupation institution, which was illegally created on the basis of the Kherson Regional Children's Home.
They organized the deportation of an 11-month-old girl and an almost two-year-old boy. The children were illegally taken to Moscow under the pretext of undergoing additional examination in a hospital
At the same time, it was established that they did not need additional examination and treatment for health reasons. Therefore, there were no objective reasons for their deportation to Russia.
According to the investigation, the Ukrainian children have now been issued Russian-style birth certificates.
The Office of the Prosecutor General once again emphasized that Russia's actions to forcibly deport Ukrainian children, grant them Russian citizenship and place them in Russian families grossly violate international law.
"The fact of the forced displacement of children is presented by the Russians and the occupation authorities as a gesture of goodwill - a pretext for "rescue", "evacuation", "rehabilitation" and other reasons that the aggressor state uses to justify the deportation of Ukrainian children," the OGP said.
