The Russian Federation indicates that it "evacuated" 744 thousand Ukrainian children. Ukraine has now been able to establish only 19,546 abduction cases officially.
How many children did Ukraine lose during ten years of war
The founder of Save Ukraine, Mykola Kuleba, said in an interview with Online.UA that during the ten years of the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine, millions of people were killed. According to his calculations, Crimea, Donbas, new territories are about one and a half million children.
From 15 to 20% of the child population of Ukraine found themselves under the power of Russia in 10 years. About half a million children lived in Crimea alone. There were a million children in Donbas, two-thirds of them were under occupation in 2014, Kuleba said.
He adds that there are no statistics on how many of them moved to the territory of Ukraine or other countries. However, after calculating the statistics from the occupied territories during the full-scale invasion, we can say that more than a million children ended up under the rule of the Russians, either in occupation or deported to Russia.
The second public figure that Ukraine received from the Russian side is 744,000 children who were registered after the full-scale invasion.
We do not know today how many thousands of children live in the occupied territories, because this number does not exist. But we can talk about approximate data, how many children were lost in 10 years. It is lost, because today they are growing up like Russians. They have come to terms, many of them have already grown up... They have become adults who were formed either in the occupation or on the territory of Russia. This figure reaches about 20,000, Mykola Kuleba clarifies.
What is known about the abduction of Ukrainian children
Watch the Online.UA documentary project “Abducted Childhood” about the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia:
In the "Abducted Childhood" film, children and their parents openly share their own stories: some of them were in captivity, some were forcibly taken to a "rehabilitation camp", and some were separated from their parents during the so-called filtering measures.
It is important to understand that during more than a year and a half of full-scale war, Ukraine was able to return less than 400 children. At the same time, Russia claims to have "evacuated" 744,000 Ukrainian children.
Since diplomacy with the aggressor country does not work, Russia continues to remove children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine illegally. However, this is not an evacuation, as the Russians claim, but a mass kidnapping of minor citizens of Ukraine.
The project documents children's testimonies about war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian people.
