Russian invaders illegally removed 13 orphans, children deprived of parental care from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. This was reported by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova on Facebook.

" Mariupol in Russian city. Rostov-on-Don. Mother-teacher went for water and did not return, her place of residence is unknown. One of the pupils of the orphanage was able to get to Zaporozhye and reported that the children had been taken to Russia. The boy also noted that the children want to return to Ukraine.. Seven children, together with their parents-educators, were illegally taken out of another family-type orphanage in. Mariupol to the village of Yagodnoye, Rostov region,"

The Ombudswoman noted that Ukrainian children deported to the Russian Federation are transferred to be raised in the families of Russian citizens. This is a crime that, in accordance with international law, falls under the definition of human trafficking.

" Russia grossly violates the provisions of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which prohibits the forced resettlement or deportation of persons from occupied territory,"

The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights also appealed to the Security Service of Ukraine and the Red Cross Society with a request to assist in the speedy search and return of children.

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Earlier it was reported that from the territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions temporarily occupied by the enemy, women and children are massively forcibly taken out to the territory of the Russian Federation, where they are placed in concentration camps with subsequent movement to the regions of Russia to the settlement.