Russia's Defense Ministry says Russia has already deported more than 951,000 Ukrainians since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

According to Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, over the past 24 hours, Russia has taken 16,838 people from the regions of Ukraine and the territory occupied by illegal armed groups of the “L/DPR”, including 1,402 children.

In total, as stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, since the beginning of the war, Russia has deported 951,329 Ukrainians, including 174,689 children..

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the invaders took about half a million people from various temporarily occupied parts of our state to the territory of the Russian Federation or to the territory of the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He also added that at the same time they took out about 5 thousand children..

These actions, which are qualified as deportation in international law, are a crime against humanity.

About why the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine should change international law, read the article by the President of the Ukrainian Bar Association Anna Ogrenchuk “How the world will react to the deportation and genocide of Ukrainians?