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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,076: "evacuation and rehabilitation" (abduction) of UKR children continues [1]
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Date: 2025-02-02
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of February 1 to 2.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 55 Shahed and decoy drones from Kursk and Oryol oblasts; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; and Millerovo, Rostov Oblast.[48] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 40 drones over Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odesa oblasts; that 13 drones were "lost," likely due to Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) interference; and that drones struck Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts. Ukrainian officials reported that Russian drones struck Slobidskyi Raion, Kharkiv City causing a fire at a production facility and warehouse, and that Russian drones damaged a house and an infrastructure facility in Sumy Oblast.[49] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on February 2 that Russian forces launched almost 50 missiles, roughly 660 strike drones, and more than 760 guided glide bombs against Ukraine between January 24 and February 2.[50] www.understandingwar.org/... Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 40 drones over Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odesa oblasts
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Russia continues efforts to illegally deport Ukrainian children to occupied Crimea and Russia under the guise of evacuation and rehabilitation programs. Ukrainian Presidential Advisor on Children's Issues Daria Herasymchuk reported on February 2 that Russia has illegally deported at least 20,000 Ukrainian children since 2022 and that Ukraine has repatriated 1,189 children with support from humanitarian organizations and Qatar, South Africa, and the Vatican.[7] Herasymchuk stated that Russian authorities have killed Ukrainian parents, kidnapped their children, and transported the children to "rehabilitation" or "evacuation" camps in occupied Crimea. Herasymchuk stated that Russian authorities have also separated children from their families in illegal filtration camps. Ukraine's Regional Human Rights Center identified 13 such "rehabilitation" or "evacuation" camps in occupied Crimea alone. Russian authorities reportedly use the camps in occupied Crimea to indoctrinate and militarize Ukrainian children before further deporting them to Russia for adoption. Herasymchuk warned that Russian authorities are increasingly attempting to mobilize Ukrainian teenage boys into the Russian military - a violation of the Geneva Convention.[8] ISW has reported extensively on Russia's crimes in occupied Ukraine, including the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.[9] The United Nations Genocide Convention Article 2 defines "forcibly transferring children of a group to another group" as an act constituting genocide.[10] www.understandingwar.org/... These Are The Republican Representatives That Voted Against Condemning Russian Soldiers From Kidnapping Ukrainian Children & Forcing Them Into Russian Families. x Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, almost 20,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by Russia. DNA testing might be the only way to one day reconnect them with their families.
[image or embed] β Artem Yashchenko (@artemyashchenko.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
x ilstexas.org/russias-forc... the the Texas State Bar's Global Law Review on Humanitarian Law this month, Russia has only returned about 500 of the purported 20,000 children KIDNAPPED from Ukraine; they're brainwashing them & refusing to return them to their frantic parents-a parent's worst nightmare
[image or embed] β Candice Ann Moragaππ§π»ββοΈ (@divaliciouscandi.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Key Takeaways: Russian forces reportedly struck a dormitory holding Russian civilians in Sudzha, Kursk Oblast on February 1 as Russian authorities widely attempted to deny Russian responsibility for the strike and blame Ukraine.
Russia continues efforts to illegally deport Ukrainian children to occupied Crimea and Russia under the guise of evacuation and rehabilitation programs.
Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Toretsk, and Russian forces recently advanced near Lyman, Siversk, Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk, and Velyka Novosilka.
Russian forces continue to forcibly mobilize civilians in occupied Ukraine into the Russian military in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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