US EditionUkrainian NGO Accuses Russia-Controlled Luhansk Of Operating 'Child Trafficking' Database
PARTIALLY OCCUPIED LUHANSK REGION, UKRAINE, AUG 8 – The database profiles 294 Ukrainian orphans, many displaced or orphaned by conflict, with filtering options to aid adoption under Russian-installed authorities, critics call it child trafficking.
- Russian-Installed authorities in Ukraine's occupied Luhansk region published an online database listing 294 Ukrainian children as available for adoption in 2025.
- Since 2014, children from Ukraine have been registered in Russian adoption records amid Russia's occupation and partial annexation of eastern regions of Ukraine.
- The database includes personal details and photographs, describes children as orphans or without parental care, and allows filtering by gender, age, and physical traits.
- Mykola Kuleba, head of Save Ukraine, condemned the database as "state-sponsored child trafficking" exposing children to exploitation, while the International Criminal Court issued 2023 arrest warrants over related deportations.
- Ukrainian officials seek the return of forcibly deported children, with only about 1,509 returned so far, and consider their removal under the 1948 Genocide Convention to be an act of genocide.
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A Ukrainian NGO claims that nearly 300 children are identified, photographed and described in great detail on the website of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of Luhansk, with a view to their adoption by Russian families.
Ukrainian NGO Accuses Russia-Controlled Luhansk Of Operating 'Child Trafficking' Database
A Ukrainian NGO has accused Russia of "state-sponsored child trafficking" after a group of administrators in Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine published an online catalog of what they called Ukrainian orphans.
A website, issued by the Russian occupation authorities of the Luhansk region, would allow Ukrainian children to be adopted, according to several physical criteria, such as the colour of the hair or eyes. L的ONG 的Save Ukraine 的 denounces the fate of these children illegally deported to Russia. ...
294 Ukrainian children have been posted online, sorted by appearance and character traits by a Russian-run database. A Ukrainian organization says the children have been systematically deported from the country - describing it as "modern child trafficking."
Russia allegedly maintains a database of abducted Ukrainian children offered for adoption, according to the Ukrainian NGO Save Ukraine. They call it "21st-century human trafficking."
Putin's sick catalogue of kidnapped Ukrainian kids sorted by eye and hair colour - The Mirror
Several hundred thousand Ukrainian children are believed to have been kidnapped by Vladimir Putin's forces and they have been put in a catalogue for adoption in Russia
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