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[HEADING=1]What do we know about the Ukrainian children taken by Russia?[/HEADING]

The court’s pre-trial judges said there were “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population, and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children”. The judges said they had chosen to unseal the names of the suspects in an effort to prevent further crimes.

Reports first emerged last spring that Ukrainian children in occupied territory were being taken to Russia, and even being adopted by Russian families. Russia has presented its actions as a humanitarian mission to save Ukrainian children from the war. But Ukraine has accused Russia of genocide and described its actions as a war crime.

[HEADING=1]Who are the children involved?[/HEADING]

The alleged abductees include children taken from Ukrainian state institutions in the occupied areas, [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/27/children-become-stuck-at-camps-in-crimea-ukraine-russia']children whose parents had sent them to Russian-run “summer camps”[/URL] from which they never returned, children whose parents were arrested by the Russian occupying authorities, and children who were orphaned by the fighting.

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/vladimir-putin-war-crimes-icc-arrest-warrant-ukraine-children[/URL]
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