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Ukrainian NGOs estimate that between 2,500,000 and 4,500,000 Ukrainians have been deported to Russia. From them, 744,000 are childrenaccording to data, the latter, of the Russian Federation. “Many of them have no options, most likely they will not survive. A lot of people are suffering forced deportations under threats, at gunpoint, etcetera.” Who speaks on the other end of the phone with EL ESPAÑOL is Anastasiia Marushevskaco-founder of the Ukrainian NGO ‘Where Are Our People?’ and of ‘Ukrainian PR Army’.
He International human right it considers these acts war crimes and explicitly prohibits “deportation within an occupied territory or from an occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power.”
For this reason, now that the NATO summit in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, concludes this Wednesday, Ukrainian NGOs want to take advantage of this opportunity to put pressure on the Atlantic Alliance and demand that it take action on the matter. “We want NATO to support Ukraine until all those people are identified. and are back in our country,” Marushevska insists. Kateryna Rashevskaa lawyer from the regional Human Rights Center and an expert on the subject, is even more blunt: “NATO can use special units to monitor the situation on the ground. They already did it in Afghanistanbut they don’t do it here because the Russian Federation is very powerful.”
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However, the conflict of Afghanistan It was very different from what Ukraine has been suffering for 15 months now. In the case of the Asian country, there was a massive exodus of the population due to the arrival of the Taliban to power. The Afghans fled to Iran and Pakistan, but also to Europe. The returns were so numerous that the UN intervened in 2021 and its ban was decreedsomething that numerous humanitarian organizations had been demanding for a long time.
In the case of Ukraine, it is Putin’s Russia that is deporting the citizens of the occupied territories and trying to disguise it as a humanitarian act. The exact figures are not known, because there is no official follow-up and because, after the explosion of the Nova Kajovka dam, it has been even more difficult to count the deportees. “Russia does not provide humanitarian aid,” denounces Marushevska. That is why she does not like to talk about the territories in which the Russian Federation commits war crimes, but about the number of people who suffer from these aberrations.
And it demands not only the intervention of NATO, but also that of the European Commission. “President Volodimir Zelenski already collected it in his points to reach a peace agreement”, remember. “The return of deported people is essential to achieve peace,” she says.
The lawyer Kateryna Rashevska explains to EL ESPAÑOL that several organizations began to document the deportations that Russia was carrying out when the invasion of Crimea took place, in 2014. “Democratic changes took place in the Crimean peninsula, a policy was established colonization and expulsions were carried out. Many people were detained, detained and brought before the courts of law that the Kremlin imposed in the occupied areas.”
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It is something that has been happening since 2014 until today. And in addition to the deportations, illegal adoptions of children are taking place. “Children are undoubtedly the most vulnerable population and of which we have managed to document the fewest cases. Many of these children may have ended up in prison and we don’t know anything about them,” Rashevska laments.
For this reason, he insists that NATO “must monitor the situation.” “They have special teams and can help us financially and through their intelligence services,” she stresses.
This Wednesday concludes the summit of the Atlantic Alliance in Vilnius, an appointment that the organization’s own secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has described as “historical”. However, the maximum commitment that Zelensky has managed to get from him has been a statement that he reads: “We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when the allies agree and the conditions are met.”
Meanwhile, NGOs continue to pray to any known god and put pressure on the Alliance to at least intervene and stop the deportations “at gunpoint” of four and a half million people and more than 700,000 children who are helpless.
