The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) issued a press release on 6 March 2023 announcing the high probability that Romani children who were previously in state care in Ukraine are among the thousands abducted by the Russians, a policy that has been called cruel, inhumane, and genocidal. According to a newly-published report by the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), since 24 February 2022, when Russia launched its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, more than 6,000 children and youth between the ages of four months and 17 years have been forcibly relocated and detained in camps and other facilities.
