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Can’t talk about going back to a past life – Mamedov
Ukraine has sentenced some 30 minors who fought on the side of separatists in Donbas. The teenagers participated in the protection of the captured buildings and even participated in direct hostilities against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian courts handed down sentences against some 30 minors from the temporarily occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The separatists lured teenagers to participate in hostilities against units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations, Deputy Attorney General Gunduz Mammadov said in an interview with zn.ua.
He stressed that the separatists have been recruiting minors since 2014.
“The use of children to participate in an armed conflict is a war crime and is strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law … But sadly, we are recording such events,” Mammadov said.
He added that the first to be brought to justice should be those who involve children as combatants.
“In this case, it is the occupation administrations and the” leadership “of the illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation. Therefore, in this process, it is they and their actions that receive a legal assessment,” said the Prosecutor. Deputy General.
According to him, children themselves need rehabilitation, psychologists must work with them.
“At present, we are aware of the convictions of some 30 minor citizens of Ukraine for participating in an armed conflict as part of an illegal armed group in the Russian Federation. According to our information, they are all in controlled territory, someone studies, someone works. , that is, there is talk of returning to there can be no past life, “said Mamedov.
Recall that the Russian Federation in the TCG supported the proposals of the separatists. For the first time, Russian negotiators announced their support for the separatist initiative.
Before that, we wrote that the separatists fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with grenade launchers. In addition, the separatists remotely mined the positions of the Ukrainian troops, using the banned POM-2 mines.
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