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A damaged residenial building in the city of Kherson, with the slogan “I love Kherson” just above a hole from artillery shelling on March 14, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFPPIX: At their home in the middle of Siberia, Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov and his wife Yekaterina are the new foster parents of five children from Moscow-occupied eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week referred to “kidnapping, forced adoption and re-education of Ukrainian children committed by Russia”, calling this “a war crime and a crime against humanity”.“I didn’t steal anyone. And they don’t think they were stolen,“ Vinogradov, a 41-year-old Protestant minister, told AFP.
The Vinogradovs say the Ukrainian children came from children's homes in the city of Lugansk, which has been controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. They showed foster papers issued by officials from Lugansk's pro-Moscow administration.“The time will come of course when they ask questions. We’ll have a look . Maybe we’ll organise a meeting,“ said his wife.
According to international law, no party to a conflict should evacuate children to a foreign country except temporarily for a compelling health or safety reason.In a report released on Monday, Human Rights Watch called for a “concerted international effort” to return forcibly deported children and urged Russia to publish information on their whereabouts.
Ukraine has “many pieces of evidence coming from different cities” and has identified 43 children’s camps in Russia. But children “are being moved around all the time”, she said.Ukraine had 105,000 children in institutional homes before war broke out, the second highest number in Europe behind Russia, HRW said.
The head of a children's rehabilitation centre outside the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Volodymyr Sagaidak, told AFP in January that during Russian occupation, officials questioned him on the children's whereabouts and seized their files.
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