In its daily report, ISW cited information from the head of Ukraine’s military administration, Artem Lysohor, who stated on May 1 that starting May 6, mothers who give birth in hospitals in the occupied territories will have to prove that at least one parent holds Russian citizenship in order for the newborn to be delivered.
“If these reports are true, such actions violate Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which defines genocide as ‘the imposition of measures to prevent births within a group’,” the institute stated.
In its report, the ISW also conveyed with reference to a communiqué from the Security Service of Ukraine that the occupying
Russian authorities continue to forcibly deport Ukrainian civilians deep into Russia.
On May 2, occupation authorities in the Kherson region reported that Russian officials brought 10 minors from the occupied territories to the Ocean children’s camp in the Seaside Krai in Russia’s far east and encouraged them to apply for admission to vocational schools in Russia.
“The occupation administration of the Kherson region has stated that it will transport an additional 200 minors from the occupied Kherson region to the Ocean children’s camp in 2024. The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on May 1 that the occupation authorities of the Kherson region are forcibly relocating Ukrainian civilians from the villages of Hola Prystan, Kochaniv and Gladkivka to the occupied Crimea and deep into the occupied part of the Kherson region,” the document proclaims.
According to the ISW, Russian officials in the occupied territories are continuing to militarize and indoctrinate Ukrainian youth.
“The Lugansk People’s Republic [LNR] said on May 1 that it is developing a new textbook presenting the recent history of the occupied Luhansk region in accordance with Russian educational standards. Zaporizhzhya Oblast occupation official Vladimir Rogov stated on May 2 that
200 children recently took part in military-patriotic games of the Russian youth organizations First Movement and Yunarmiya in occupied Berdyansk and Melitopol,” ISW pointed out.
