1️⃣ Fake #1 — “Russia is deporting and transferring children”
The vast majority of children arrived in safe regions of Russia together with their parents or close relatives. At the same time, children’s social care institutions in the Donbas were evacuating from areas under shelling to ensure the safety of their pupils.
2️⃣ Fake #2 — “Russia has a programme for adopting children”
The Russian Federation does not have a programme for adopting children from the SMO zones. Information about thousands of adopted children is inaccurate. 380 orphans and children left without parental care – large family groups and children with disabilities – were placed under guardianship and custody in Russian families with the assistance of the Commissioner in April-October 2022.
3️⃣ Fake #3 — “Russia does not return children from Ukraine”
We have been dealing with the reunification of families separated for one reason or another since the beginning of the SMO, consistently and openly. We promptly process the appeals we receive: we help in finding a child, if necessary, although more often children are with close relatives and their whereabouts are known to their parents.
4️⃣ Fake #4 — “Russia does not co-operate with the Ukrainian side on the return of children”
Russia has a working channel for co-operation with the Ukrainian side, which makes it possible to deal with individual requests. The exchange of necessary documents and information is taking place, with the assistance of Qatar and the Vatican, the process of family reunification is being coordinated.
5️⃣ Fake #5 — “Children from the SMO zones are forced to change their citizenship to Russian”
New Russian citizens also retain their Ukrainian citizenship, if they had it before and have not voluntarily expressed a desire to renounce it.
6️⃣ Fake #6 — “There are re-education camps for children from the SMO zones in the Russian Federation. Military training is organized for children there”
The format of “The Day After Tomorrow” shifts is designed to help children recover from the stress they’ve been through, adapt to new conditions, and find opportunities to build their own futures. After the recreation children return home to their families.
7️⃣ Fake #7 — “The International Criminal Court order has intensified Russia’s measures to reunite families”
Prior to the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant [...] the Commissioner’s Office was also working on family reunification. The ICC warrant, by contrast, has only increased the flow of misinformation and created tension between erecting unnecessary barriers.
📄Children’s Rights Bulletin. Issue #4 / May, 2026 (PDF)
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