A Yale study found that more than 300 Ukrainian children were forcibly deported to Russia

A study by the Yale School of Public Health, released on December 3, found that 314 children were forcibly deported from Ukraine to Russia and placed in Russia’s system of forced adoption and foster care.

From February 2022, almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children were kidnapped from the territories occupied by Russia and sent to other Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine or to Russia itself – claims the Ukrainian national database.

Russia is implementing a “systematic, deliberate and wide-ranging” program of forced adoption and Russification of Ukrainian children, test found. All children identified in the report were taken from Russian-occupied areas of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.

Russian child placement databases falsely list Ukrainian children as if they were born in Russia, according to a study. Some database agencies later restricted publicly available data on Ukrainian children following a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC). released arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lviv-Belova in March 2023.

Like the ICC, Yale researchers found that Putin and Lviv-Belov ordered and facilitated a system of child deportation and forced assimilation into Russian families. The study shows that in 2022, on Putin’s orders, the Russian air force and military planes transported many groups of children.

The study also shows that children from Ukraine were transported throughout the country to at least 21 regions Russiaand after deportation they were surrendered pro-Russian re-education before placing them with Russian families.

The forced adoption program involves psychologists and mental health specialists whose goal is to “legitimize” human rights violations in Russia by claiming that placing children with families is medically necessary.

The study found that more than 60 of the 314 children identified in the study have been naturalized as Russian citizens since their abduction.

The data collected in the study will be presented to the ICC as evidence of your Russian language skills war crimes.

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