At least 314 children abducted from Ukraine by Russian forces have received offers for adoption on a website funded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yale University's Humanitarian Institute said Tuesday. We published the research results we discovered.
the study, of the title According to Russia's Systematic Plan on Forced Adoption and Foster Care of Children in Ukraine, 166 of the children have already been placed in the care of Russian citizens across 21 oblasts and provinces. At least 67 of them have been confirmed as naturalized Russian citizens.
“All databases are operated by and affiliated with the Government of the Russian Federation, and are either under the direct command of the Government of the Russian Federation or formally in close coordination with it,” the authors point out. focuses on a program that he personally directs together with the Children's Rights Commissioner. Maria Lvivova-Belova.
Both President Putin and Lviva Belova have achieved outstanding achievements. arrest warrant Judgments from the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding crimes against humanity, particularly the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
A Yale University investigation found that the kidnapped Ukrainian children were taken from their homes by Russian military aircraft “directly under President Putin.” They were then “detained for six months in a Russian halfway point” before being transferred to a Russian “educational institution” and put up for adoption on Putin's website. The educational institution in question delivered massive amounts of Russian propaganda to unwilling students.
At least three child placement databases examined by Yale University researchers incorrectly identified Ukrainian children as having been born in Russia, when in fact they were all born in Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, which is occupied by Russian forces. He is reported to be from the Donetsk region.
Putin's government hired qualified psychologists to give the program a veneer of legitimacy and a “medically necessary whitening.”
Russian government agencies restricted the information about children made available to the public and, in some cases, changed database entries months after they were created. Some children say Russian authorities have threatened to separate them from their siblings if they do not cooperate with kidnapping and adoption programs.
The report noted that “investigatively important” data was removed from the adoption system after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lviv Belova.
The authors revealed that several high-ranking officials from Russian ministries and political organizations were involved in the scheme, along with Russian occupation officials in Dontescu and Luhansk, but they found that President Putin, “Russia's forced adoption There is no doubt that he has primary command and control responsibility for key strategic decisions regarding adoption programs. ”
“Mr. Lviva-Belova is, in effect, President Putin's executive director of this program and, after President Putin, is the most important person in directing this program,” they said.
uk telegraph on tuesday noticed One of the children stolen from Ukraine was actually Lvova-Belova's own adopted child.
“Ukrainian officials say they have evidence of some 20,000 expelled children, but no supervision in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which were controlled by Russian proxies before the full-scale invasion in 2022.'' “We fear that number could rise further due to the shortage.” telegraph Reported.
Yale University Humanitarian Institute issued A statement on Tuesday said the report “reveals a higher level of crime than originally understood” regarding Putin's child abductions and provides evidence of additional war crimes charges against Putin and Rybova Belova. He said it was possible. In fact, the statement even suggested that Putin could be indicted for genocide.
Russia has not signed the ICC Treaty, but President Putin has signed the ICC Treaty. blackmailed Member countries do not arrest him when he is arrested. visitTherefore, the additional charges and warrant against him would be purely a diplomatic gesture.
