Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has found concrete evidence of the mass abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia, according to HUR spokesman Andriy Yusov, as cited on the agency’s official Telegram channel on Wednesday.
A little over a week ago, a HUR cyberattack gained and destroyed masses of data after gaining access to the servers of the Russian-imposed “Crimean government” over several days.
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At the time, HUR said they anticipated that the 100 terabytes of data it had extracted would soon reveal “a lot of explosive details about the activities and crimes of the Russian occupiers in Ukrainian Crimea.”
Today’s announcement reported that the recovered material “contained documentation confirming the forced displacement of children from the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.”
It went on to say that its specialists “gained access to several thousand lists of deported children, details of children without legal guardians for whom Russia illegally appointed replacement Russian ‘custodians’ including the addresses of new places of residence where the abducted Ukrainian children were ‘resettled.’”
HUR says the data amounted to thousands of files containing invaluable information relating to the abduction of Ukrainian children – one of Russia’s most glaring war crimes.
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The Telegram post published redacted images of some of the evidence obtained, which the directorate said it had already passed to law enforcement agencies for further analysis and the preparation of criminal proceedings.
Ukraine intends to use the obtained information to both find and return abducted children home, as well as identifying and punishing those involved in the crime.
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