Ukraine managed to return only 500 children taken to russia out of 20 thousand confirmed cases of deportation - Lubinets

Ukraine continues to work to work on the return of Ukrainian children abducted by russia. There are only officially confirmed cases of deportation are about 20 thousand, but due to the the aggressor's reluctance to let little Ukrainians go home, only 500 children have returned to Ukraine so far. only about 500 children have returned to Ukraine so far. This was announced during the telethon by Ombudsman of Ukraine Dmytro Lubinets, reports UNN.

The russian federation is returning the number of children so gradually that these are disproportionate figures. 20 thousand officially confirmed deported, abducted Ukrainian children. And we managed to return to return a little more than 500 Ukrainian children. 387 children were returned who were were directly deported. We demand that the russian federation return thousands of of Ukrainian children. We have lists. We are now developing return algorithms. There is only one problem - the unwillingness of the Russian Federation to return Ukrainian children

To recap

Recently it became known that sergei mironov, leader of the A Just russia party, and his and his wife adopted a girlabducted from Kherson, Ukraine.

In addition, they also changed the child's name and documents. This  was the first recorded fact of changing the name and surname of a Ukrainian child by russian citizens.

Lubinets said that he would appeal to partners and international organizations to condemn the condemn the russian Federation on the example of this case, and recognize it as a crime of genocide and to facilitate the return of Ukrainian children home.

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