Keep in Crimea, then adopt. What happens with the abducted Ukrainian children in

Focus decided to figure out who these Ukrainian children were, where they were moved or deported and for what purpose. In spite of the number, it is already clear that the Russians, by abducting children, commit a specific international crime - a military or genocide, which the International Criminal Court in the Hague should eventually be given. But even more-he already issued warrants to the suspect-Russian President Vladimir Putin and his authorized child rights of Mary Lviv-Beliv.

Subsequently, suspicions may be declared to other Russian high -ranking officials. Vanya and Maxim are two teenagers who were taken to the occupied Donetsk in the spring of 2022. They are the pupils of the Mariupol College, their guardian was considered the director of the educational institution Anton.

The college in which the boys studied was located near Azovstal and close to the building where Mariupol's territorial defense forces were located, so from the first days the premises of the institution were destroyed. However, at that time there were no children in the college, they lived in the city: in a hostel near the guardian house, he and his wife prepared their food and brought it.

In one of the days in early March, Anton decided to evacuate his family to the city center, broke through, returned for the boys, asked for the help of police officers, but in the absence of guardian Vanya and Maxima evacuated somewhere. As it turned out later, to the building of the Azov State Technical University. "We then thought that Mariupol was a fortress, no one would ever take it. In the basement of the university, the boys lived for two weeks, brought new people daily.

Subsequently, it was decided to walk from the city towards Berdyansk Zaporizhzhya region, and then - to go to Lviv. Maxima and Vanya stopped Russian military military on one of the checkpoints - Ukraine no longer controlled the territory around Mariupol. The minors were taken to the Mangush to the hospital. There the doctor learned that they were minors - called the "Children's Service" from Donetsk. So the boys were in the hospital of this city.

"When we went to Donetsk, I asked the woman who was carrying us to give us some connection. She would keep his promise, but in a week. Then he arrived" Donetsk Mayor "and brought local phones to cards, replenished the bills, - Ivan says Ivan says . - and I contacted Anton through Weiber in late March - early April. " Further Vanya and Maxim were already waiting for them to be a guardian and took away.

Anton developed routes and opportunities to pick up boys, acted with the help of state representatives. "I was given me in Donetsk, but I was insisted that I came to Donetsk personally, assured that nothing would happen to me. When I decided to go, I realized that I could also be captured, but I had no choice," he says. Guardian Anton. On May 31, 2022, at 10am, he left Kiev by bus, Ukraine-Poland-Lithuania-Latvia. Next - to Russia.

Three days passed, and the man went to the House of Donetsk Hospital, where the boys were. At that time, the children who were in the hospital with Maxim and Ivan have already left. Most of the minors from Mariupol, who have lost or lost their parents, as well as children from other boarding schools, orphans. In total, about 20-30 people-aged 8 to 17 years. Some of them were taken to the camp to Moscow.

Among them is 16-year-old Philip, who will be taken by Lviv-Belov later, as well as Anna Naumenko, who was placed on one stage with Putin in Luzhniki. There are several conditional groups among children who have been displaced or deported during the year. The first is children from boarding schools and orphanages. Most of them, although they have biological parents, are deprived of parental rights, the guardian is the state. Some such establishments were completely exported by the Russians.

As, for example, a children's home in Kherson - about forty children under the age of five were transported to Crimea. But still some were left in the occupation in Kherson. The focus of Kherson political scientist Vladimir Molchanov is about them. "In Oleshkovsky boarding school, evacuation has not been carried out by Ukraine. There are very difficult children, some of them are not capable of self -care, not something to study. But from the Oleshok, the Russians were taken out by all.

Part - to Skadovsk, part - to the territory of the Russian Federation," he says. . - In this case, the Russians used the Nazi approach: children who may be more promising to replenish the Russian gene pool or scientific fund, they were taken to themselves. Those who were considered a burden were left in Skadovsk. only one. In fact, the Russians, leaving children, enjoy the fact that some of them are difficult to find legal guardians, and declare that they can only return them.

" The second is children who have died or temporarily disappeared during the fighting. As in the case of Ivan and Maxim. The third - children who lived in the occupied territories for a long time were moved to the so -called recreation camps in Crimea or southern Russia. According to the official version, the holiday should take several weeks. In fact, children remain and remain without their parents for months. Some parents then gave voluntary consent.

"These parents either had pro -Russian views, or were considered margins, which were tempted for financial assistance," continues Molchanov. "The proposals came from teachers of captured Ukrainian schools. Already 4,000 rubles and 15,000 financial assistance were allocated for such specific families in such specific families. Parents were told that children would receive valuable gifts in the camps, they would be fed, dressed there, and financial assistance would be preserved for families.

Some were given even when it was clear that the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was inevitable. " At the same time, some parents and guardians of collaborators and Russians were forcibly divorced with children. It happened with 8-year-old Margarita from the Beryslav district of Kherson region. At the time of the commencement of a full -scale invasion, she was in the family of a biological father, by court decision after divorce he became a guardian of the girl.

However, my mother went to the Crimea for the girl. "Angela Kotikova - a local collaborator, first went to our village and forced people to vote for the rarshars, and those who refused, she put on a list that transferred to the Russians. It happened that she was my daughter Margarit She was put. She decided to give Margarita to the camp. For this she asked for a birth certificate from her father.

The chairman of the local guardian council recommended not to give, but Kotikov came to her father with two soldiers with a weapon and took away his certificate, " - says Mother Margarita Veronica. Then began the counter -offensive of the Ukrainian army, and Kotikov, according to witnesses, fled from the village. The child also disappeared. It turned out that Margarita was in occupied Kakhovka. "It turns out that she stole a baby, perhaps for a safety, to make it easier to leave," - suggests mom.

Subsequently, Veronica saw her daughter in the photo in a post "Volunteer" from Crimea. It stated that Margarita was in Evpatoria in the health resort. It was to him that the Russians moved several dozen Ukrainian children from Kherson region (later it became known that Ukrainian children are also in the sanatoriums "Druzhba" and "Husry"). Veronica decided to go for her daughter and brought her to herself.

"In four months in the Crimea, and all this time the daughter went to the local school, she began to forget the letters, uses the letter" e "with two dots," - says mom. But he notes that the child was not offended there, and rejoices that they gave away.

After keeping in the sanatoriums and camps in Crimea or in the Moscow region (but in fact, the geography of the movement and deportation of Ukrainian children is quite wide-from Rostov-on-Don to Irkutsk), minors from Ukraine are transferred to education to Russian families.

Following the announcement of the arrest of Mary Lviv-Belova, Ukrainian children were not kept but trying to "reun with Ukrainian families", for this purpose a special headquarters for the search for relatives of deported children was created in April 2022.

"For eight months of his activity, the headquarters" reunited "15 children with 8 Ukrainian families, with Russian families, according to children's Ombudsmenka, 380 children were transferred," - said Kateryna Rashevskaya, a lawyer of the Regional Human Rights Center, who The beginning of a full -scale invasion examines the issue of the movement and deportation of Ukrainian children.

And in families, according to Rashevskaya, they try to re -educate and Russify Ukrainian children, including those who have lived in occupation for a long time. This is evidenced by public statements of Russian officials, including Lviv-Bielova herself. A few weeks after the arrest warrant was issued, Putin's representative went to a press conference. During her, she made some more resonant statements. For example, that Ukrainian children will try to "adapt to life in Russian society.

" This is evidenced by the story of 16-year-old Bohdan Ermokhin from Mariupol, whom Lviv-Belova called "pro-Russian". Before that, the boy was given to the Moscow family in the family of Irina Rudnitskaya, who turned out to be the former Russian military. Local media has information that Bogdan has entered the technician with a specialty of mechanic, as well as volunteer.

Instead, Ukraine knows that Bogdan Ermokhin is the guy who not only has adults in Ukraine, but also tried to escape from the Russian Federation, but was intercepted. "Literally, the last moment, with the power structures, we managed to stop him at the border with Belarus," the Commissioner said during his speech, specifying that the boy was led by "Ukrainian agents", they dropped his money. In addition, Lviv-Belova mentioned the history of Philip, whom she took "for education" in her family.

She answered the question of adaptation: "Of course, I cannot say that everything goes smoothly and without difficulty. It's hard to respond when your baby runs after younger children and says" Let's eat a moscow It is not with her, but with an eight -year propaganda that was in Mariupol. " Philipa is known to have died a few years ago, but in the occupied Mariupol he has adult relatives, as well as a guy, according to children who communicate with him, would like to return to Ukraine.

At the mentioned meeting with Lviv-Belov journalists, she also said that Ukrainian children do not have to learn Ukrainian. "We have Russian state language, and there - whenever possible," she said. The Advisor, the President of Ukraine for the Rights of the Child and Children's Rehabilitation, Darya Gerasimchuk also emphasizes that children are forbidden to speak Ukrainian, they are forced to study the Russian anthem, get up during the anthem. If they refuse, they are punished for disobedience.

"Some children even had a photo confirmation, but when the Russian side passed them to their parents, she forced to delete all the photos and videos of evidence," she explains. For "complex children" there are already special "educational" programs and special militarized camps, such as "Forces of Russia". "The Commissioner emphasized the possibility of funding for such initiatives from federal support funds.

For example, the Putin Foundation is funded by" Assistance to Donbass Orphans "to undergo a" process of change Rashevskaya. Some children who have returned to Ukraine are evidenced by the fact that the re -education process is ongoing. So one of the teenagers said that those who support Ukraine were beaten in a Russian children's camp by a "some iron stick. " He also called the name of the employee involved in the beating - Astakhov.

"He answered the safety, and he imagined the king," - said the teenager. He also said that the camp staff (which was a camp in the occupied Crimea) lied to children about Kherson's release by Ukrainian military, and also said that their parents refused them, and therefore promised to transport their children to the Pskov boarding school to be there to be there. They were adopted by the Russians.

According to the official information of the Ministry of Reintegration, Ukraine has now managed to return 328 children. They and their guardians are witnessing in the relevant criminal proceedings at both national and international levels. Kateryna Rashevskaya is amazed that the Russians do not understand whether they want to understand that the movement, the arrangement of children in the family is an international crime.

"For example, governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in his annual report wrote that they took children from the family, even without documents. Seriously-without documents? Yat. There are two children - take two, "Rashevskaya is indignant. Political scientist Volodymyr Molchanov believes that Russia will continue to continue the practice of abduction of Ukrainian children. He sees at least three reasons for this.

"Since the Russians are classic Nazis, they are very concerned with the fact that in Russia there are now more than half of children born in the Russian Federation, are not carriers of Russian appearance and culture. They try to increase the potential for the export of Ukrainian children. Approximately, as the Germans did with Polish, Ukrainian and Russian children, when they measured their skulls and, if they recognized them outwardly Aryan, they were taken from their parents.

While German propaganda was not taken over the re-education of teenagers, Russian believes that it can make a model Russian from anyone, "Molchanov emphasizes. "Russian society is looking at what" Ukrainians are fascists "are ready to kill or abandon their own children," Molchanov continues. "No wonder stories about Mariupol and those who" 8 summer bombil Donbass ".

They work for Internal propaganda and to some extent to some part of Western society, which is still looking for arguments to support Russia. " Meanwhile, the topic of returning children is already at the highest political level. And not only because of the warrants for the arrest of Putin and Lviv-Belova. In the office of the President of Ukraine in the process of establishing the International Coordination Group on the return of children.

There is also a coordination headquarters on the protection of the rights of the child in the conditions of martial law, headed by Viceremierk Irina Vereshchuk. In addition, at all international sites - from the UN to the European Parliament - the topic of Ukrainian children is disturbed. And above all, all require Russia not only to return children, but also to provide full lists of those of them to whom Russia has taken out to their own or temporarily occupied territories.