Moscow's deportation and forcible transfer of thousands of children from Ukraine to Russia amounts to a crime against humanity, a United Nations team of investigators said Tuesday.
The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said it had evidence leading it to conclude that "Russian authorities have committed the crimes against humanity of deportation and forcible transfer, as well as of enforced disappearance of children".
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