Putin's planes were involved in kidnapping Ukrainian children

The planes and money of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin were used to kidnap Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories. The enemy is stripping them of their Ukrainian identity and transferring them to Russian families.

This is stated in a report of the Yale School of Public Health, as Reuters reports on Tuesday, December 3.

Kidnapping of Ukrainian children

A study conducted with the support of the US State Department identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the first months of the full-scale invasion as part of a systematic "Russification" program funded by Russia. 166 of them ended up with Russian families, and 148 are registered in Russian databases. Two groups of children were transported on planes controlled by the Putin administration.

"A new report, provided to Reuters, contains the alleged deportation program and the involved individuals, including what the lead researcher calls the new ties with Putin," the report says.

Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University, said he would present the findings to the UN Security Council on December 4.

He said the study provided evidence to support the new charges of the International Criminal Court against Putin of "forcible displacement" of national and ethnic groups.

Raymond emphasized that the deportation of Ukrainian children is part of a systematic program led by Russia.

On December 2, the Adviser to the President's Office, Daria Zarivna, reported that six Ukrainian children had been returned from the temporarily occupied territories.

Previously, juvenile prosecutors identified a Russian occupier involved in the deportation of children from the Mykolaiv region to Russia.