Russian invasion of Ukraine/Deportation of children

• Constitutes genocide

• Deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is war crime - UN

• Russia deports thousands of Ukrainian children. Investigators say that’s a war crime

• The Ukrainian children stolen by Putin and sent to camps [1]

• “Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the...crimes, for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others” Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova

• These minors were: -Kidnapped by 🇷🇺

• Hi, I’m Russian. Russia wages a genocidal war of conquest against Ukraine, and indeed kidnaps Ukrainian children to Russia. This is corroborated by Russians who aid Ukrainians in locating and rescuing these children. If you ignore Ukrainians you’d listen to Russians surely?

• Journalists identify man allegedly involved in abuse of deported children as former Ukrainian special ops commander: “The Insider reported that Astakhov participated in the “events on the Maidan on the side of [former Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovich’s security forces.” According to Myrotvorets, a Ukrainian site that contains information about people accused of colluding with Russia or participating in separatist movements, Astakhov used to serve in Ukraine’s Interior Ministry in Crimea, but after Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014, he became a Russian citizen and began working for the Russian authorities.”

• Ukrainian woman detained in Moscow for attempting to bring deported children back to Ukraine – Russian media

• Pekka Kallioniemi, “In this thread I'll be discussing 🇷🇺 genocide in Ukraine. I'll focus on the child abductions & will be providing evidence that 🇷🇺 has planned this for a long time and that their intent has been announced in the state-owned media at least since the beginning of April, 2022.”, November 7, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• https://twitter.com/IsobelYeung/status/1674372421648875525

https://youtu.be/RNAAC1kX5kE

https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/maria-lvova-belova-war-crimes/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/01/russia-admits-deporting-700k-ukrainian-kids-proof-for-icc-says-ukraine/

• The race to save Ukraine’s abducted children

• Russia claims it removes children for occupied Ukrainian territories for safety. But stories told by teenagers who have been able to escape Russia contradict Russian authorities and describe forced removal and detention (through WP)