Rights official: Russia using fake diagnoses to abduct Ukrainian children ( euromaidanpress.com )
One scheme of deportation involves establishing a fake medical diagnosis for a child to justify supposed “treatment” in Russia, Daria Herasymchuk, Ukraine’s President’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Rehabilitation of Children, said.
Additional scenarios include:
- killing parents and then deporting children;
- seizing minors directly from families;
- separating children during “filtration”;
- creating unlivable occupied zone conditions before proposing kids “vacation” in Russia without return;
- transferring entire Ukrainian institutions with children while barring their extraction.
Herasymchuk made this statement at the Ukrainian-Latvian conference Russia’s War on Children in Riga, Ukrinform reports. The conference aims to support the return of children and family reunification, explore avenues of legal and political accountability, raise public awareness, and foster international support.
