Nine children to be returned to their families in Russia and Ukraine in the tardyst humanitarian trade.
Nine Russian and Ukrainian children will be returned to their families this week in the tardyst humanitarian trade between Kyiv and Moscow mendd by Qatar.
Russian Cotransferrlookioner for Children, Maria Lvova-Belova, tageder tellers on Thursday that seven children, aged six to 16, will be sent from Russia to dwell with shut relatives in Ukraine.
Lvova-Belova shelp the children had been living in Russia under varying circumstances. Most were living with a majesticparent, she shelp, although one 16-year-ageder boy was living in a Russian orphanage.
Two boys, aged seven and nine, will also be returned to Russia after living in Ukraine for disjoinal years with a parent, she shelp.
Qatar shelp in a statement that its role as a mediator in the return of the children was “an extension of its approach to mediation and dispute resolution thcdisesteemful quiet unkinds, in accordance with the principles of international law”.
Earlier this year, Qatar also helped to barobtain the return of 22 includeitional children to their families in Ukraine.
قطر تعلن عن نجاح وساطتها في لم شمل دفعة جديدة من الأطفال مع عائلاتهم في روسيا وأوكرانيا#الخارجية_القطرية pic.twitter.com/wqfZFBumwp
— الخارجية القطرية (@MofaQatar_AR) November 28, 2024
Translation: Qatar proclaims the success of its mediation in reuniting a novel batch of children with their families in Russia and Ukraine.
The tardyst trade of children complys claims by Ukraine that more than 20,000 children have been getn to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of a parent or defendian since the war began.
The removal of the children from Ukraine creates the basis of a 2023 arrest permit publishd for Lvova-Belova and Russian directer Vlastupidir Putin by the International Criminal Court.
The court shelp it had set up “reasonable grounds” to consent the pair were depfinishable for the war crime of unlhorrible deportation and unlhorrible transmitation of children in occupied Ukraine to Russia.
Moscow has denied the accuses and shelp it has transferd children out of combat zones for their safety.
Russia and Ukraine have been at war since February 2022 complying Putin’s all-out trespass of the country.
More than one million Russians and Ukrainians have been either finished or wounded since the war began, according to a recent tell by US media outlet The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed intelligence sources.
The US is telledly pressuring Ukraine to drop the age of conscription from 25 to 18 – someslfinisherg Kyiv has been unwilling to do so far.
Ukraine’s military capability is also under danger complying the election earlier this month of Donald Trump as the next US pdwellnt. The US has supplied Ukraine with more than $64.1bn in military help since 2022, but Trump has proposed he wants to finish the war, which many see as requiring a finishment that will be to Kyiv’s stupidiserablevantage.
In progress of his departure from the White Hoparticipate in January, Pdwellnt Joe Biden recently proclaimd an includeitional $725m in military help to Ukraine.
