Russia's forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said Thursday, also warning of possible crimes against humanity.
Children play in Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov's house outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on March 10, 2023. Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov and his wife Yekaterina have a huge family of 16 children, including 4 of their native and 12 fostered ones. Five of these children have recently arrived from eastern Ukraine, controlled by Russian troops. Alexander Nemenov/ AFP
"Many of these amount to war crimes," the report by the so-called Commission of Inquiry said, highlighting the forced transfers of children. The investigators said they had reviewed in detail incidents concerning the transfer of 164 children, aged four to 18, from the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
It also said Moscow could be responsible for the even more serious "crimes against humanity," pointing to the wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy-related infrastructure that began last October, and recommended further investigations. But without access to the Donetsk region, "it does not have a sufficient basis to make such determination and recommends further investigations," it said.
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