Permanent war crimes tribunal, issued arrest warrants for In March, the International Criminal Court, the world's Reuters said it had not received a response to a request for comment from Alexander Lukashenko's office. "The fact and circumstances of taking Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to the so-called 'recreational camps' in Belarus are currently under investigation in the mentioned criminal proceedings," Andriy Kostin's office said in a statement to Reuters. Ukraine Prosecutor General's office told Reuters that it had launched criminal proceedings over the "forced transportation/deportation" of more than 19,000 children from occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv, including to Belarus. The National Anti-Crisis Management said in its preliminary report that the children were taken to at least three locations in the country - which was used as a staging post for troops ahead of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. So-called recreation camps and sanatoriums on Belarusian The announcement came in response to a report by theĮxiled Belarusian opposition alleging that 2,150 UkrainianĬhildren, including orphans aged six to 15, were taken to The children are alleged to have been transported from the Russian occupied Ukrainian territory to "recreational camps" in Belarus. Ukraine's top prosecutor has launched criminal proceedings against Belarus over the alleged kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children.
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