The occupiers forcibly took over 2,000 Ukrainian children to Belarus

The occupiers forcibly took over 2,000 Ukrainian children to Belarus

The occupiers forcibly took over 2,000 Ukrainian children to Belarus

According to the Belarusian People's Anti-Crisis Administration, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, more than two thousand children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine have been deported to Belarus. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

 According to information, last year 1,150 Ukrainian children were deported to the territory of Belarus, since the beginning of this year - already a thousand.

 The relocation of children from the occupied Donetsk region is carried out with the help of the Dolphin Foundation and the Belarusian Foundation of Oleksiy Talay.

 Also, according to the Belarusian organization, there are four places where Ukrainian children stay - three in Minsk region and one in Gomel region.

 The Ministry of Reintegration also reported that the representatives of the Belarusian People's Anti-Crisis Administration handed over the materials of their investigation to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, and the European Parliament and the Council of Europe were also informed about them.

 As the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi previously reported, Ukraine is aware of 19,505 cases of deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. According to the president, to date, thanks to various efforts, it has been possible to return 371 children from deportation to Ukraine.