Belarus kidnaps Ukrainian children. Figures revealed. "Transfer coordinated by Putin and Lukashenko"

The Russian Federation has been kidnapping Ukrainian children since the beginning of its full-scale invasion. As revealed by the Humanitarian Research Laboratory of the Yale School of Community Health, the transfer of Ukrainian children was directly coordinated by Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin. The special services of these countries were also supposed to deal with this.

The Humanitarian Research Laboratory of the Yale School of Community Health (Yale HRL) has published the report "Cooperation between Belarus and Russia on the systematic deportation of Ukrainian children". It documented the role of Alexander Lukashenko and representatives of his regime in the transfer of children from the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to Belarus.

The report includes key findings on the number of resettled Ukrainian children, resettlement locations, routes and programs, as well as data on the adoption and implementation of deportation decisions.

Almost 2.5 thousand kidnapped Ukrainian children are in Belarus

According to scientists, at least 2,442 Ukrainian children aged 6 to 17 were resettled from 17 cities in Ukraine to at least 13 facilities in Belarus. Most of the children from Ukraine were sent to the Belarusian camp in Dubrava. As Yale HRL points out, these numbers can be confirmed with high accuracy. At the same time, the researchers note that the total number of illegally resettled Ukrainian children probably exceeds this number.

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Deportation of Ukrainian children coordinated by Putin and Lukashenko

The report also states that the resettlement of Ukrainian children was directly coordinated by Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin "with the support of the special services of Russia and Belarus." The report emphasizes that the deportation of Ukrainian children to Belarus and Russia and their “re-education” is systematic.

Yale HRL found that at least nine groups of children from Ukraine were “re-educated” at eight of the 13 facilities. During “re-education”, cultural, historical, social, patriotic and other propaganda ideas corresponding to the political interests of the regimes of Belarus and the Russian Federation are voiced. At least six groups of children from Ukraine received military training in Belarus, including at internal security bases in Belarus.

Yale HRL states that the children were transported from Russian-occupied territories to Rostov-on-Don and then transported by rail from Rostov to Belarus.

At the end of May 2023, the General Prosecutor's Office in Kyiv initiated proceedings regarding the illegal deportation of over 19,000 children from the areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia. Cases of illegal placement of Ukrainian children in the so-called holiday camps in Belarus.