Russian invasion of Ukraine

Again from the Guardian live text, heinous crimes being committed

Ukraine MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said tens of thousands of Ukrainian children could have disappeared, potentially deported to Russia in what she described as “genocide”.

She told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday:

We have about 13,000 cases that are confirmed that Ukrainian children have been deported to different parts of the Russian Federation.

However, we also have information about many more of those that are counted in tens of thousands. But we just do not have that the official kind of recording of those ... and this is part of the genocide that the Russian Federation is conducting against Ukrainian nation.

Because turning children, abducting them, and turning children into different nationality by spreading them around the Russian Federation and actually giving them to to Russian families, that is just another trace of genocide that is ongoing right now in the centre of Europe.

Klympush-Tsintsadze, the chair of the parliamentary committee on EU integration, said they have been able to return about 100 Ukrainian children to their families with the help of human rights groups and other organisations.

Speaking about how the children had been separated from their families, including instances where some children were even adopted, she explained:

Some of them [the children] have been going through the filtration camps with their parents where they were separated from the parents. Some of them have been taken to so called summer camps or vacation camps for a week from their parents and then never, never returned. And they were even some of them were even given already for adoption to Russian families, as if they didn’t have their own families back in Ukraine.

Klympush-Tsintsadze added that the full picture would not be known until all Ukrainian territories were “liberated”.

I think the the scope of these absolutely tragic activities that are being carried out by the Russian authorities will learn only after we will be able to liberate all the territories of Ukraine.

And that is something that those people who are suggesting peaceful territories do not understand: the suffering, the tragedies, the tortures, the abductions, deportations, you know, all the territories that are right now occupied by the Russian Federation…and we have to ensure that those people are liberated by the Ukrainian armed forces.