Reports from Russia said the extension was brought about after a request by the country's security service - the FSB - for more time to investigate the claims ahead of a possible trial. The 32-year-old reporter, the first US journalist since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying charges, strongly denies the allegations.Īccording to Russia's state news agency, RIA, Mr Gershkovich, will remain in custody until the end of August. Mr Gershkovich, a US citizen, was arrested in Russia in March on charges. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich - who is being held in Russia on espionage allegations - has been detained for a further three months, according to Russian state media. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his children's rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, on two counts of warĬrimes for moving hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia. Permanent war crimes tribunal, issued arrest warrants for In March, the International Criminal Court, the world's Reuters said it had not received a response to a request for comment from Alexander Lukashenko's office. "The fact and circumstances of taking Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to the so-called 'recreational camps' in Belarus are currently under investigation in the mentioned criminal proceedings," Andriy Kostin's office said in a statement to Reuters. Ukraine Prosecutor General's office told Reuters that it had launched criminal proceedings over the "forced transportation/deportation" of more than 19,000 children from occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv, including to Belarus. The National Anti-Crisis Management said in its preliminary report that the children were taken to at least three locations in the country - which was used as a staging post for troops ahead of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. So-called recreation camps and sanatoriums on Belarusian The announcement came in response to a report by theĮxiled Belarusian opposition alleging that 2,150 UkrainianĬhildren, including orphans aged six to 15, were taken to The children are alleged to have been transported from the Russian occupied Ukrainian territory to "recreational camps" in Belarus. Ukraine's top prosecutor has launched criminal proceedings against Belarus over the alleged kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children.
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