Russia has launched a "catalogue" of kidnapped Ukrainian youngsters up for adoption, sorted by hair and eye color.
The itemizing, launched by Russian authorities working Ukraine's japanese Luhansk area, holds data on 294 youngsters.
CEO of the Save Ukraine organisation, Mykola Kuleba – who introduced the scandal to mild – stated: "Since 2014, youngsters from the occupied territories – Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea – have been systematically transported to the order of Russian households underneath Moscow and to different areas of Russia.
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"It might seem that demand for youngsters has decreased, so the occupiers are in search of new methods to 'enhance' this horrible system."
He added: "Most kids on this 'catalogue' have been born earlier than the occupation of Luhansk area and had Ukrainian citizenship.
"The mother and father of a few of them have been killed by the occupation authorities, the others simply made Russian paperwork to legalise kidnapping."
Photographs of the youngsters are introduced alongside their age, gender, and character traits, with some being described as "obedient" and "calm".
The database permits potential mother and father to filter by age, eye and hair color, in addition to their most well-liked type of guardianship, comparable to adoption or foster care.
Kuleba added: "The best way they describe our Ukrainian youngsters is just not completely different from the slave catalogue.
"That is actual youngster trafficking within the twenty first century that the world must cease instantly."
Official figures have recognized almost 20,000 Ukrainian youngsters who’ve been kidnapped by Russia, however the actual quantity is anticipated to be a lot increased.
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Daria Herasymchuk, the Advisor and Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Kids's Rights and Rehabilitation, has put the quantity between 200,000 to 300,000.
At present, fewer than 1,500 have been returned to their properties.
Each Putin and Russia's Kids's Commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, have been hit with arrest warrants by the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) over youngster abduction.
They have been accused of transferring youngsters to Russia having unlawfully deported them from occupied areas of Ukraine.
In March 2023, the ICC stated Putin "bears particular person prison duty" as Russia's President, whereas alleging each these accused had been committing the crimes since a minimum of February 2022.
However Russia's International Ministry dismissed the accusations on the time, blasting: "Selections of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom don’t have any which means for our nation, together with from a authorized standpoint."
Russia left the ICC in 2016 after its unlawful annexation of Crimea.