More than a hundred children from the occupied Luhansk Region were poisoned during a "rehabilitation" in Tyumen. This was reported by the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Artem Lysohor.
The children are currently in a hospital in Saratov Region. More than 30 of the 125 children have fever. All of them are being examined, tested and diagnosed. The Luhansk schoolchildren are isolated from the rest.
A 12-year-old girl from Luhansk fainted on the train and could not be saved.
Local authorities assure us that they will organise a hotline with parents. However, many of them cannot be contacted, as Lysohor notes, due to the lack of mobile coverage in a number of towns and villages in the so-called "LPR".
"These children were returning from Tyumen, where they had gone for recreation. Not in the summer, not to the Krasnodar Region, for example, but to Tyumen in December. To a regular children's camp. For example, recently schoolchildren from Sievierodonetsk travelled to the frosty Perm Region. Their immune system failed. We failed to harden the boys and girls," wrote Artem Lysohor.
- Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said that Russia's policy towards Ukrainian children is part of the genocide of the Ukrainian nation and violates the Geneva Convention. Russians have killed more than 500 Ukrainian children and injured more than a thousand.
- Lubinets also said that almost 20,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. It would take 55 years to return one child from Russia to Ukraine every day.
- In December, the first meeting of the International Coalition of States on the Return of Deported Ukrainian Children was held. Zelenskyy called the deportation of Ukrainian children "a clear genocidal policy of Russia".