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Europol Sleuths Trace 45 Ukrainian Children Forcibly Taken to Russia
The two-day Europol operation brought together 40 experts from 18 countries and produced 45 reports to help locate children and identify transfer networks.
- On Monday, Europol announced that investigators traced 45 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia during an open-source intelligence operation conducted last week.
- Following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, tens of thousands of Ukrainian children were forcibly deported to the Russian Federation, prompting a United Nations commission to recently accuse Moscow of committing "crimes against humanity."
- Investigators from 18 countries gathered in The Hague last week using digital tools to identify the children's whereabouts; some are held in re-education camps or psychiatric hospitals, while others were adopted by Russian nationals, Europol said.
- The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights, for alleged war crimes involving the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine.
- Ukraine works with international partners including Qatar and the Vatican to bring deported children home, with Maksym Maksymov of Bring Kids Back Ukraine stating that "sustained cooperation is essential" to address the scale of violations.
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news38.deMajor search success: Europol has been able to track down 45 Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped for years on the Internet.
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Investigators have searched online for the children by means of face recognition. Since the beginning of the war, more than 19,500 children have been abducted, according to Europol.
An international investigator team has tracked down 45 Ukrainian children suspected of being kidnapped by Russia.
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