Kaja Kallas accuses Russia of systematic deportation, indoctrination of Ukrainian (russian speaking) children

The EU accused Russia on Wednesday of pursuing a state-orchestrated campaign to deport Ukrainian children, erase their national identity and subject them to indoctrination in occupied Ukrainian territories.

Speaking at a European Parliament plenary session, foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said more than 20,500 Ukrainian children had been illegally deported to Russia.

"The treatment of Ukrainian children over the last four years is the clearest example of Russia's total disregard of life," Kallas told MEPs.

She said deportations were "Russian government policy, approved by President Vladimir Putin to deport Ukrainian children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia."

"All evidence points to a crime against Humanity," she said. "In a sick and twisted turn of events, in a sick and twisted turn of events, it is likely that stolen Ukrainian children are now being sent back by Russia to fight against Ukraine.”

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