Overview

• Eight individuals and three organisations were designated by the U.K. for roles in the abduction and indoctrination of Ukrainian children.
• Aymani Kadyrova and the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation were named, along with Volunteers of Victory, the Movement of the First, Valery Maiorov, Zamid Chalayev, Anastasia Akkuratova, Leyla Fazleeva and Rinat Sadykov.
• The measures include asset freezes, travel bans and related penalties.
• The U.K. cited assessments that more than 19,500 children have been transferred or deported since 2022, with about 6,000 reportedly sent to re-education camps.
• Ukrainian authorities report 1,592 children returned and say over 150 locations holding children have been identified in Russia, occupied Ukrainian territories and Belarus.