2 lakh kids amongst 11 lakh Ukrainians ‘forcibly deported’ to Russia’, says report

As Moscow claims that it has evacuated a number of individuals, together with kids, from Ukraine to Russia, a report has claimed that almost two lakh kids have been forcibly deported to Russia.

The Kyiv Independent tweeted, “Russia forcibly deports 1.1 million Ukrainians to Russia, including nearly 200,000 children. Russia’s Ministry of Defense stated that since Feb. 24, 1,092,137 Ukrainians have been forcibly deported to Russia from the Russian-occupied Donbas, including 196,356 children.”

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More than 11,500 individuals, together with 1,847 kids, have been transported from Ukraine into Russia on Monday with out the participation of Kyiv’s authorities, Russia’s defence ministry stated.

That quantity contains evacuations from Russian-backed breakaway areas of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s republics, which Russia recognised as unbiased simply earlier than launching its Feb. twenty fourth invasion.

Russia says the individuals have been evacuated at their very own request, whereas Ukraine has stated Moscow has forcefully deported hundreds of individuals to Russia because the struggle’s starting.

Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” its neighbour. Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked struggle of aggression.

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On Monday, the primary civilians to be evacuated from a large metal plant within the besieged port of Mariupol arrived within the Ukrainian-held metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, as a part of a United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross operation coordinated with Ukraine and Russia.

Since Feb. twenty fourth, almost 200,000 kids and 1.1 million individuals have been evacuated from Ukraine into Russia, the defence ministry stated.

(With inputs from Reuters)