Some 700,000 kids from Ukraine have been taken in by Russian authorities because the invasion, officers stated yesterday.

The announcement drew world anger and renewed accusations of warfare crimes, with human rights teams saying the children had been successfully “hostages”.

While the Kremlin claimed to have given the kids “refuge”, Ukrainian authorities accused Moscow of breaking worldwide legal guidelines by eradicating them illegally.

Grigory Karasin, head of the worldwide committee within the Federation Council – Russia’s higher home of parliament – stated the nation had introduced the kids from battle zones in Ukraine.

He stated: “In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us, fleeing the bombing and shelling from the conflict areas in Ukraine.” Moscow has since claimed its “programme” of bringing kids from Ukraine into Russia is to guard orphans and children deserted within the battle zone.

But Ukraine condemned the announcement and argued that many kids have merely been illegally deported by Russian authorities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of employees Andriy Yermak stated: “The Russian Federation continues to commit its crimes in connection with Ukrainian children.”

Nathaniel Raymond, of the US’s Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab, stated the news was “absolutely stomach-churning”.

This view was shared by the US authorities, with the White House claiming that lots of the youths had been forcibly faraway from their houses earlier than being spirited over the border by Russian forces. War crimes prosecutors have been drawing up instances to be launched on the finish of the battle.

A warrant has already been issued for the arrest of Russian chief Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged warfare crimes in opposition to Ukrainian children. And authorities in Kyiv stated they've now collated studies of youngsters being illegally deported.