Dmytro Lubinets sent an urgent letter to the members of the European Ombudsman Institute to withdraw from the association

The Ukrainian Ombudsman said that that step resulted from the fact that two Ukrainian children in Austria had been taken to the territory of the Russian Federation. 

According to him, this was done by Dr Josef Siegele, a member of the EOI Board and Deputy Ombudsman of Tyrol. 

"These facts, namely the forced transfer of children from one group to another, are one of the signs of genocide following Article II of the UN Convention of December 9, 1948, on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide," Lubinets wrote. 

According to the Ombudsman, the European Ombudsman Institute did not conduct an internal investigation and did not impose appropriate sanctions on Siegele.