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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg

Ukraine investigating role of Belarus in transfers of children - prosecutor

FILE PHOTO: Iryna embraces her 13-year-old son Bohdan, who went to a Russian-organised summer camp from non-government controlled territories and was then taken to Russia, after he returned via the Ukraine-Belarus border, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 8, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/

Ukraine is investigating the alleged role of Belarus in the forced transfer of children from Russian-occupied territories, the office of the prosecutor general told Reuters on Tuesday.

The announcement came in response to a report by the exiled Belarusian opposition alleging that 2,150 Ukrainian children, including orphans aged six to 15, were taken to so-called recreation camps and sanatoriums on Belarusian territory.

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