Russia claims to have illegally taken more than 700,000 children from Ukraine

Russian Children's Rights Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova has presented a report on her work, which states that Russia has illegally taken more than 700,000 children from Ukraine.

Among them are 1,500 children from orphanages. Russian families have adopted 288 children from the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region and 92 children from the Luhansk region.

Between April and October 2022, 380 children from the Donetsk region who were left without parents were placed in Russian foster families in 19 regions.

52 children from the Oleshky orphanage in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region were taken to Crimea. According to the report, these children have severe health conditions.

In addition, in late summer and autumn 2022, parents from the occupied parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv regions sent their children to a sanatorium allegedly for a holiday in the temporarily occupied Crimea and Krasnodar Krai.