As it is widely known, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Children’s Ombudsman, Maria Lvova-Belova. Both are implicated in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children and accused of unlawfully transferring them from Ukraine’s occupied territories to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Notably, this practice by the Russian Federation can be traced back to the occupation of Crimea in 2014. The basis for this policy is the forceful passportization of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territory. The most vulnerable group of these illegal practices are orphans and children deprived of parental care, who did not have the opportunity to independently renounce the imposed citizenship and protect their rights as they could not make the decisions by themselves. Russian propaganda deliberately uses the sensitive topic of children’s lives and safety to avoid responsibility for this human rights violation. In particular, the agitprop uses a set of manipulative statements, such as: «children of Donbas» are Russian children; Ukraine and the West are killing «children of Donbas», so they need to be «saved» (deported to Russia), and that the full-scale invasion is revenge for the «children of Donbas». At the same time, they consciously «forget» that it was Russia that unleashed the war from which children need to be saved. Domestic and foreign institutions see this as Russia’s intention to forcibly transfer children from one national group to another and destroy their Ukrainian identity, and such steps actually have signs of genocide.