The EU Council has adopted an EU strategy to strengthen the protection of children's rights in crisis or emergency situations, in particular during armed conflicts. The conclusions were considered due to systematic and gross violations of the rights of the child by the Russian occupiers in Ukraine.

The corresponding document on the website of the European Council states that during armed conflicts, children are one of the least protected categories of the population..

“The Council points out the need to protect children who have experienced armed conflicts and their consequences, in particular, protecting them from recruitment by the armed forces, from human trafficking, illegal adoption, sexual exploitation and separation from the family,” reads a communique issued by.

The EU Council calls on member states to improve the protection of children in emergencies, strengthen the fight against child trafficking, identify strategies for identifying victims of trafficking and raise awareness among children and their families of the risk of exploitation.

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Separately, representatives of the council emphasized that emergencies can be used for personal gain in terms of child custody. In particular, they noted that no adoptions should occur during military conflicts..

Recall that since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupiers have illegally taken to the territory of the Russian Federation at least 232,000 children..

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Since the beginning of a full-scale war, the occupiers have taken to Russia more than two thousand Ukrainian orphans and children deprived of parental care. Why did it happen so? How the authorities see the problem in the field of child protection and how they plan to solve it during the war? Is it possible to adopt a child now and is it necessary to simplify the procedure? Read about this in an interview with Alla Kotlyar with an adviser - Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation Daria Gerasimchuk: "