Report Reveals Shocking Details of Russia’s Systematic Relocation, Re-education, and Forced Adoption of Ukrainian Children

A new report released Tuesday by the Conflict Observatory, part of the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, has revealed disturbing details about the extent of Moscow’s efforts to relocate, re-educate, and sometimes militarily train or forcibly adopt out Ukrainian children. The report states that all levels of Russia’s government are involved in this expansive network of dozens of camps, where thousands of Ukrainian children have been held since the start of the war against Ukraine last year.

The report has documented around 6,000 Ukrainian children being taken from their homes, and states that these actions constitute war crimes and could provide evidence that Russia’s actions amount to genocide. The camps are part of a systematic effort to relocate and re-educate the children, and the report states that some of the children have been subjected to military training and forced adoptions.

The report has been released by the US government-sponsored Conflict Observatory, which was established by the State Department to gather evidence of human rights violations in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. The report is the first of its kind to provide evidence of the extent of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and it has been met with shock and outrage from human rights advocates.

The report has called for an immediate investigation into the camps and for the children to be returned to their families. It also calls for the international community to take action to ensure that the children are protected and that the perpetrators of these crimes are held accountable.