By force and deception: new testimonies have emerged about the deportation of Ukrainian children in the Russian Federation - NYT

This information testifies to military crimes and genocide against Ukrainians, according to the material of The New York Times Emma Bubol. The journalist writes that she was able to talk to several children from Mariupol and other cities in the Donbass, whom the Russian military was forcibly removed from Ukraine. The children said they were planted on buses and were taken to Russia.

The publication gives the story of a 14-year-old girl Ani, who fled from home for tuberculosis patients in Mariupol and is now in a foster family near Moscow. She lived and was treated for tuberculosis in an orphanage in the forest town. When windows and doors flew from the explosions, the children fled to the basement. Anya read the fairy tales with the smallest and dwell the time of drawing.

Later, Ukrainian volunteers planted Anya and about 20 other children in an ambulance and took to the Zaporozhye, but at the Russian checkpoint they were turned and they were in Donetsk, which essentially became a transshipment point on the way to Moscow. "I didn't want to go. But no one asked me," Ani's journalist quoted. According to her, she cannot contact her mother now, because she has in a hurry to forget the notepad with her phone number, and only the first three digits remembered.

Bobula writes that NYT journalists have repeatedly interviewed the Ukrainian girl, checked key details through her friends, photos and a diary in which she described communicating with children who were in the same situation. At the same time, Anna asked nothing to speak to her foster parents, because they forbid her communicating with outsiders.

The girl told how many tried to break free from the city after the bombing, but they were intercepted on checkpoints by the Russian military were planted on buses and sent deep into the Russian Federation. Her stories replenish the increasing number of evidence of the expulsion policy and adoption, which is aimed at the most vulnerable children who are in the most dangerous situations.

The journalist notes that the violent movement of children, when it is aimed at eradicating any national group, is an act of genocide in accordance with international law, and mass violent migration of children is a potential war crime, whether they were orphaned or not. At the same time, in Russia, the adoption of Ukrainian children is presented as a patriotic act.

On state television, officials on the camera give soft toys to children who have arrived again, who are depicted by victims saved from the war. In fact, the Russian government uses children, including patients and orphaned, as part of a propaganda campaign, which portrays Russia as a mercy rescue. According to some reports, more than 121 thousand children were taken out of Ukraine.

In particular, 40 thousand were from Mariupol, they were taken to the occupied Donetsk and then in the direction of Taganrog. According to the analyst of the Crimea SOS, Yevgeny Yaroshenko, violent export is a clear violation of the rights of the child, fundamental human rights and international humanitarian law. We will remind, the famous Russian propagandist and host of the Russian state TV channel Anton Krasovsky called "to heat in Tisin" and "Smoking in fir houses" Ukrainian children.