The SSU, the National Police and the Prosecutor General’s Office have collected and verified a large-scale evidence base on the forced deportation of at least 31 Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk region to russia.

After russia’s full-scale invasion, underage Ukrainian citizens were taken to the Polyany boarding house in moscow region, which is part of russian presidential administration.

These are 16 underage boys and 15 girls.

Among them are three children from Mariupol, who were forcibly taken away from their father. The ruscist sent the dad to Olenivka Colony.

Also deported from Mariupol were 19 orphans and children deprived of parental care.

Another 9 minors were abducted from children’s social centres in Shakhtarsk and Khartsyzsk.

The SSU documented that the kremlin’s order to deport Ukrainian kids from the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk oblast had been carried out by the head of russia’s local occupation administration, Denis Pushilin.

For this purpose, he signed ‘resolution No. 84’ on the departure of children supposedly for ‘rehabilitation’ in medical and recreational facilities in russia.

The gauleiter instructed his ‘advisers’ – Eleonora Fedorenko and Svitlana Mayboroda, heading the so-called ‘DNR family and children’s service’, – to carry out the order.

As the investigation revealed, the abducted children were first taken to the temporarily occupied Donetsk, then transported by bus to Rostov-on-Don, and then by plane to moscow.

From there, the minors were taken to a countryside boarding house of putin’s administration.

Subsequently, some of the deported children were handed over to russian citizens for ‘upbringing’. One child was placed with the family of Maria Lvova-Belova, the russian presidential commissioner for children’s rights.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for putin and his subordinate for forced deportation of Ukrainian children to russia.

Based on the newly documented facts, SSU investigators have notified Pushilin, Fedorenko and Mayboroda of suspicion in absentia under Articles 28.2 and 438.1 of the CCU (violation of laws and customs of war, committed by a group, upon prior conspiracy).

The investigation was carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.