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Zelensky: More than 200,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia.

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In his daily address on June 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia continues to forcibly move both adults and children into mostly remote areas of Russia, underscoring that this is one of Moscow's "most heinous war crimes." He added that the children deported include orphans and children with parents.

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