Ukrainian children stuffed with psychotropic drugs. “This is just part of what's going on.”
“It is really very difficult for children in such conditions. They have no right to speak Ukrainian, much less learn the Ukrainian language and literature. They know that for this they may be punished themselves or their parents will suffer. Often, for such disobedience, children are beaten, isolated, forcibly given psychotropic drugs – I know such cases personally. And unfortunately, this is only part of what is happening. And this is something we have no right to remain silent about.” — said Herasymczuk in an interview for the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
At the same time, she emphasized that children in the occupied territories have no one to complain about the violations of their rights by the Russians.
“If adults, at least sometimes, find an opportunity to inform, for example on the 'Children of War' website, that they have information about a crime against a Ukrainian child, children most often do not find such a way of communicating,” the spokeswoman explained.
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Several children returned home
However, Herasymczuk emphasized that if a child has access to the Internet, he or she can go to the “Children of War” website and talk about what happened to him or her. Thanks to this, you can learn about such cases and help.
On Thursday, the head of the Ukrainian president's office, Andriy Yermak, announced that 23 Ukrainian children and teenagers were rescued from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and transferred to areas under Kiev's control.
On Friday, US First Lady Melania Trump announced that thanks to cooperation with Russia in response to her letter regarding Ukrainian children deported to Russia, eight children were returned to their families in the last 24 hours. The wife of the US president assessed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin showed readiness to cooperate.
The US first lady's letter to Putin about Ukrainian children was delivered to the Russian leader during the summit of US and Russian presidents in Alaska. Previously, Melania Trump also raised this topic in conversations with the wife of the Ukrainian president, Olena Zelenskaya.
The Ukrainian authorities reported that Russians illegally deported or forcibly resettled over 19,500 people to Russia and Belarus. children contrary to the Geneva Conventions. Government-funded studies indicated that the number of deported children may be closer to 35,000. – Reuters reported.
