Belarus has been collaborating with Moscow in the forcible transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied Ukraine in a programme directly overseen by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko, according to research from Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL).
Russia and Belarus are targeting children for removal from Ukraine, coordinating their transport from occupied Ukraine through Russia to Belarus, and subjecting children to re-education, sometimes including military training, sometimes including military training, the Yale HRL researchers said.
Belarus's direct involvement in Russia's forced deportation of children represents a collaboration between Belarus's authoritarian leader [Alexander] Lukashenka and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, with various pro-Russia and pro-regime organisations facilitating the deportation, they said.
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