Russian invaders in Melitopol threaten parents to take away their children if they do not go to schools that they are trying to run in the captured city, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.

“For the last two weeks, the rashists have clearly declared their intentions that those parents who do not send their children to the school that the rashists are trying to organize will have their parental rights taken away,” he stressed..

The occupiers have no legal grounds for deprivation of parental rights, but not disdaining kidnapping, the invaders do not worry about such “little things”.

" I can't imagine how it will play out in real life. But there are such threats today,” Fedorov concluded..

The occupiers are trying to launch schools with a Russian curriculum in the occupied Ukrainian territories, but Ukrainian teachers mostly do not want to cooperate with the invaders.

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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has forcibly removed thousands of children from Ukraine. These are mostly children deprived of parental care, but there are also those whose parents were killed by the Russian military.

Children are taken to ORDLO or to Russia, where they are given for adoption to Russian families.

Russian Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova urged to simplify the process of adoption of children taken from Ukraine as much as possible.

Kidnapping of minors is a violation of the UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, this practice is typical not only for the Putin regime.. Regimes in other countries have also kidnapped children to intimidate enemies and political opponents..