The sun rises on 2023. Its rays light up the trench, an unwelcoming black void into which we gratefully disappear to take cover from the artillery, rockets and Iranian Shahid drones that are launched daily from the Russian positions just kilometres across the water. All around, the landscape is ragged and torn. This is the emergent topography of southern Ukraine, a land sundered by violence. Nearby, a cat wanders across an expanse of concrete — unperturbed by it all.
The first reports about the removal of children from Ukraine to Russia appeared in the second half of March, when the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry accused Moscow of illegally transferring 2,389 minors from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In early June, at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, the Ukrainian delegation raised the issue of the illegal deportation to Russia of about 230,000 Ukrainian children. According to the Ukrainians, this deportation is a gross violation of international law, in particular the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
Delays in the provision to Ukraine of Western long-range fires systems, advanced air defense systems, and tanks have limited Ukraine’s ability to take advantage of opportunities for larger counter-offensive operations presented by flaws and failures in Russian military operations.
taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communications service from controlling drones, which are critical to Kyiv’s forces in fighting off the Russian invasion.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/09/zelenskiy-aide-takes-aim-at-curbs-on-ukraine-use-of-starlink-to-pilot-drones-elon-musk
Wow! That's crazy.
Quote from: thelakelander on February 11, 2023, 05:38:00 PMWow! That's crazy.Yeah... certainly a form of genocide...
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) identified 43 facilities involved in holding children from Ukraine since Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The majority are recreational camps where children are taken for ostensible vacations, while others are facilities used to house children put up for foster care or adoption in Russia. These findings indicate the majority of camps have engaged in pro-Russia re-education efforts and some camps have provided military training to children or suspended the children’s return to their parents in Ukraine.
Quote from: BridgeTroll on February 12, 2023, 08:22:27 AMQuote from: thelakelander on February 11, 2023, 05:38:00 PMWow! That's crazy.Yeah... certainly a form of genocide...https://hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/apps/sites/#/home/pages/children-camps-1Quote The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) identified 43 facilities involved in holding children from Ukraine since Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The majority are recreational camps where children are taken for ostensible vacations, while others are facilities used to house children put up for foster care or adoption in Russia. These findings indicate the majority of camps have engaged in pro-Russia re-education efforts and some camps have provided military training to children or suspended the children’s return to their parents in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Russian Federation Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova on February 16, confirming that the Kremlin is directly involved in facilitating the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families. During an in-person working meeting with Lvova-Belova, Putin stated that the number of applications submitted by Russian citizens for the adoption of children from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts is growing significantly.
