Child kidnappers

List of entities involved in the deportation of Ukrainian children
Total number:
362
Individuals
173
Legal entities
Updated: 17.08.2026
Everyone involved in the deportation and forced displacement of Ukrainian children must be made known to the world and brought to justice. These include decision-makers, leaders of paramilitary and patriotic youth organisations, camps and educational programmes that "re-educate" children, and employees of russian educational and cultural institutions who carry out indoctrination.
Illegal deportation and forced displacement of children are war crimes, and their forced transfer to russian citizenship, change of personal status (name, date and place of birth, information about parents, etc.) and "re-education" are part of the cultural genocide of Ukrainians committed by the enemy.
At least 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted by russia from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. And these are only the known cases: russia does not provide information about deported children not only to Ukraine but also to international organisations, blocks humanitarian access to the occupied territories and places of detention, making it impossible to record crimes. Children are prevented from returning. They are hidden and moved deeper into russia. Every day, they continue to be deported, separated from their families in the occupation and subjected to programmes and policies that destroy Ukrainian national identity.
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Individuals Legal entities
 
Individuals Legal entities
Total: 362
ARTIUKHOV Dmitrii Andreevich
ARTIUKHOV Dmitrii Andreevich
Organizers of the deportation
Supports and implements Putin's policy of deporting Ukrainian children who were displaced from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation. As the governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, he created a working group to ensure that the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is ready to receive ‘evacuated’ refugees from the so-called DPR and LPR. He took an active part in the transfer of Ukrainian orphans who had been displaced from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to Russian families. Several families from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug have taken care of children from Donbas.
He cooperates with the occupation authorities of the so-called ‘DPR’, including in the area of youth policy. He is the organiser of the My Russia project, an excursion tour for 7-11th grade students from Volnovakha to the historical centres of Russia, including meetings with the so-called ‘heroes of Russia’, show business stars, astronauts and Olympic champions. From November 2023 to May 2024, more than a thousand children took part in the project.
Artyukhov says the goal of the My Russia project is to integrate children into a ‘common history’, Russian history and culture, referring to ‘one genetic code’.
He organises so-called ‘health campaigns’ in the temporarily occupied Crimea, involves children and young people in Volnovakha in search expeditions of the ‘Memory Watch’ propaganda campaign.
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LANTRATOVA YAna Valerevna
LANTRATOVA YAna Valerevna
Perpetrators of kidnapping
She is directly related to the fact of forced deportation of Ukrainian children from the TOT of Ukraine to the russian federation, with their subsequent adoption into russian families.
In September 2022, together with her assistant, Inna Varlamova, she personally arrived in the temporarily occupied Kherson region and illegally took two children from an orphanage in Kherson to the territory of the russian federation. Subsequently, on the territory of the russian federation, one of the two abducted children was illegally transferred for adoption to Varlamova Inna Gennadievna and her husband, a member of the State Duma of the russian federation, Mironov Sergey Mikhailovich. In addition, the child's surname and place of birth were changed.
In March 2024, the SSU notified Lantratova in absentia of suspicion of "forced individual deportation of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons", as well as "violation of the laws and customs of war".
In 2014, she participated as an observer in the pseudo-referendum in Crimea.
She was a member of the working group for monitoring the observance of human rights in Ukraine. In her reports presented in russia and Europe, she stated about "massive human rights violations by the Ukrainian authorities".
In 2022, the occupation authorities awarded her the Order of Merit for the Kherson Region, first class.
As part of her parliamentary activities, she voted for the occupation of parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine in 2022, and is currently responsible for ensuring payments to the so-called "participants of theS MO" and their families.
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More than:
745
children killed
2 912
children injured
20 651
children abducted
As of: 28.09.2026
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