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Ukrainian children abducted by Russia were put up for adoption on a Russian government-linked website with no mention of their Ukrainian background, and at least one of them was listed under a false Russian identity, the Financial Times reports. Abducted from state care homes in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine in spring 2022, four children aged eight to 15 were moved to occupied Crimea or even as far as Orenburg near the Kazakh border. The New York Times has previously identified 22 children (out of 46 abducted from a Kherson children’s home) put up for adoption and foster care in Russia. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of the war crime of unlawful deportation of children. At least 20,000 children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories to Russia, Ukrainian authorities say. Many thousands more are missing.
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