Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine has put children in residential institutions at extreme risk, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on March 13. The report says many Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken to Russia and have suffered "traumatic experiences." HRW said the documented instances of the forcible transfer of children from Ukrainian residential institutions to Russia amounted to a war crime. HRW estimates Ukraine had 105,000 children in residential institutions before the start of the war in February last year and almost half had disabilities.
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