(Reuters) – The European Union’s migration commissioner warned on Monday that Ukrainian kids had been at risk of being trafficked they flee their nation from the Russian invasion.
Ylva Johansson instructed a information convention in Estonia that about half of 3.3 million Ukrainians who had fled to EU nations because the begin of the conflict had been kids.
Ukraine has a high quantity of orphans and youngsters born via surrogate moms who had not been picked up by their dad and mom. That elevated the risk that they may very well be kidnapped or develop into victims of pressured adoptions, she mentioned.
“There is a large risk of weak kids being trafficked,” she mentioned.
So far there had been only a few unaccompanied kids reported at EU borders, she mentioned, and a few studies of trafficking.
(Reporting by Francesco Guarascio, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
