Eleven children aged 2 to 16 were welcomed at the Qatari embassy in Moscow and will be transferred to Ukraine this Tuesday. A total of 59 children have already been repatriated to Ukraine through this mechanism, according to Moscow.

Russia is accused by Kiev of having “deported” thousands of children to its territory from the regions it occupies in Ukraine. The International Criminal Court last year issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin and Russian Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for "war crimes"