Ukraine has said that Russia is looking to forcibly deport children from the city of Horlivka.
Kyiv has accused Moscow of"kidnapping" children from a Russian-occupied city in Donetsk as part of a policy to destroy Ukrainian identity.
"The Russians continue their policy of genocide in the temporarily occupied territories, aimed at kidnapping Ukrainian children," the center said on Friday, adding that the plan aimed to"assimilate" the children and"destroy" their Ukrainian identity. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , from which Russia has been suspended, said in March that Russia's forced relocation of Ukrainian children and efforts to impose Russian culture on them"matches with the international definition of genocide."signed a decree on Thursday that allowed for the further deportation of residents from occupied parts of Ukraine.
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