“Described as merchandise”: occupiers create online catalog of Ukrainian children from Luhansk region
Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region have launched an online catalog with photos and descriptions of Ukrainian children who are being offered for “adoption.” The website of the so-called “Ministry of Education and Science of the LPR” features photos of children, their names, ages, and characteristics such as “obedient,” “calm,” or “active.”
According to Mykola Kuleba, head of the Save Ukraine organization, the “catalog” allows users to filter children not only by gender, but also by eye and hair color. He stressed that this resembles a “slave catalog” and is a form of modern child trafficking, which the world must stop immediately.
According to Kuleba, most of the children on this list were born in Luhansk region before its occupation and were citizens of Ukraine. Some of them were left orphaned after their parents were killed by the occupying authorities, while others were illegally issued Russian documents to “legalize” their abduction.
“When the Russians demand lists of abducted children during negotiations, all they need to do is transfer their own database from this same website. All the evidence of their crimes is posted on their official resources,” he emphasized.
According to researchers at Yale University (USA), at least 35,000 Ukrainian children are considered missing and may be in Russia or the occupied regions. Many of them were illegally adopted, transferred to military camps, or placed in orphanages.
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