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16 November 2023
Khoshnood, Kaveh, Nathaniel A. Raymond and Caitlin N. Howarth et al.
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) has found that at least 2,442 children from Ukraine between the ages of six and 17 have been taken to Belarus between the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and 30 October 2023.1 Russia and Belarus are jointly targeting children for removal from Ukraine, coordinating their transport from occupied Ukraine to Russia and onward to Belarus, and subjecting children to re-education, including military training. Belarus’ direct involvement in Russia’s forced deportation of children represents a collaboration between the two regimes on deportation activities conducted by Russia. Russia’s campaign of child deportation and transfer has been previously reported by Yale HRL.2 These activities are a joint e ort between Belarus and Russia through the Union State. ...
Yale HRL has found that at least 2,442 children from Ukraine between the ages of six and 17 have been transported to 13 facilities in Belarus following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Children were transported from at least 17 cities
across Ukraine in waves that continue through the date of publication. Over 2,050 children from Ukraine were transported to the Dubrava facility in Belarus between September 2022 and May 2023.7 The other approximately 392 children have been accommodated across the remaining 12 facilities. ...
The movement of children from Ukraine to Belarus, as well as their re-education and military training, has been jointly directed and co-funded by Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka in direct coordination with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin [Figure 3].11...
https://hub.conflictobservatory.org/...9fa779f2d/data
Khoshnood, Kaveh, Nathaniel A. Raymond and Caitlin N. Howarth et al.
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) has found that at least 2,442 children from Ukraine between the ages of six and 17 have been taken to Belarus between the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and 30 October 2023.1 Russia and Belarus are jointly targeting children for removal from Ukraine, coordinating their transport from occupied Ukraine to Russia and onward to Belarus, and subjecting children to re-education, including military training. Belarus’ direct involvement in Russia’s forced deportation of children represents a collaboration between the two regimes on deportation activities conducted by Russia. Russia’s campaign of child deportation and transfer has been previously reported by Yale HRL.2 These activities are a joint e ort between Belarus and Russia through the Union State. ...
Yale HRL has found that at least 2,442 children from Ukraine between the ages of six and 17 have been transported to 13 facilities in Belarus following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Children were transported from at least 17 cities
across Ukraine in waves that continue through the date of publication. Over 2,050 children from Ukraine were transported to the Dubrava facility in Belarus between September 2022 and May 2023.7 The other approximately 392 children have been accommodated across the remaining 12 facilities. ...
The movement of children from Ukraine to Belarus, as well as their re-education and military training, has been jointly directed and co-funded by Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka in direct coordination with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin [Figure 3].11...
https://hub.conflictobservatory.org/...9fa779f2d/data