Russia’s Child Abduction
Ukrainian Victims, International Reactions
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia’s occupation authorities have abducted tens of thousands of children and sent them to locations elsewhere within the occupied territories or to Russia and given them over to adoption. The abduction of minors and their Russification through assimilation presumably constitute genocide. In March 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights Mariia L'vova-Belova on suspicion of committing a war crime. Only a fraction of the abducted children have been able to return to their Ukrainian guardians.
(Osteuropa 6-7/2024, pp. 35–50)