49 UN member states have announced a joint statement on the illegal forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. The document was published on Twitter by Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslytsya.

The statement was signed by Andorra, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy Japan.

It is a response to a meeting of the UN Security Council, where the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court precisely for the deportation of Ukrainian children, is to speak via video link..

The statement said that Russia will try to " The document also says that the facts of the deportation of Ukrainian children are obvious, and Russia is lying and manipulating. We are talking about more than 19.5 thousand Ukrainian children. Many of them were taken from their parents.

" No amount of disinformation spread by the Russian Federation can deny the veracity of this issue or protect people from the children of responsibility for these crimes,"

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Recall that the other day, 45 member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) supported the investigation into the abduction of Ukrainian children by the invaders.

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