With the war crimes and child abuse in Ukraine that Russia has created, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicated Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova for the mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Currently, there has been an arrest warrant sent out for Putin, and the war crime has committed the unlawful deportation of the population. Therefore, due to these severe incidents happening, the United Nations criticized Russia’s abduction issues and re-education camps.

To start off, regarding the abduction issues, the court had grounds to believe the crime due to reports of Ukrainian children in occupied land taken to Russia. Then, the Ukrainian children were taken from their homes and later adopted by Russian families and about 1,400 Ukrainian children were abducted from Ukraine to Russia. Since Russia believed the abduction was saving the Ukrainian children, they have taken these actions which wasn’t the right thing to do obviously. For that reason, these matters were recognized and condemned by the United Nations.

Furthermore, Russia has forced children from Ukraine to be sent to re-education camps. The summer “re-education” camps were funded by Russian states under the Russian government’s influence. Among the 6,000 Ukrainian children forcibly attending the re-education camps, 90% of those children were still living with their family members. The parents were denied their right to get their children back from the re-education camps after the war had started.

The United Nations' internationally illegal war crime is the act of “illicit transfer and non-return of children abroad.” Despite the constant efforts for mediation and compromise, the efforts have only resulted in the increased anger and unrest in Ukraine where children are still suffering to devastating extents, losing their childhood and being put in trauma.