All orphan children need to be exported from the zone of combat operations in Ukraine, Russia is ready to accept them, but the Ukrainian authorities have the opportunity to choose any place For carriage in a safe place where children will be ensured security, said the Ombudsman under the RF President on the rights of the child Pavel Astakhov at a press conference in MIA " Russia today ".
" The problem is very acute, because It is the most vulnerable children. These are children who require immediate transportation to a safe place. For us, by and large, no matter where children will take out, if only they were taken from the war. If they will be accepted in Poland or Germany - wonderful. We own party say that We are ready to accept them. What are we to blame that We abduct children?" said Astakhov, explaining the appeal to the Russian Federation of the Ukrainian authorities to prevent " illegal export " of children-orphans from Donbass.
Authorized on the rights of the child added that in the conditions of fighting the Convention On international kidnapping of children, to which Russia is party, should not be used.
according to him, in the combat area is 61 institutions For orphans, where live 3648 children left without parental care. Some of them are exported or resting currently in summer camps, but the rest are in danger." according to our information, about 50 percent of children placed in their places, " said Astakhov, noting that may be transported in a safe place now need 1223 child-orphans.
He said that more than a dozen of family children's homes were evacuated. The Russian Federation had exported 563 a child without parents.
As was reported before, Pavel Astakhov, the Russian Federation is more than 201 thousands of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine, among them 28, 7 thousand children.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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