On 11 May 2026, in Brussels, Belgium, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže participated in a high-level meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, organised in Brussels by the European Commission in cooperation with Canada and Ukraine. The meeting focused on future joint efforts by national and international institutions to return Ukrainian children who have been illegally deported and forcibly transferred by Russia back to Ukraine. “Today we are…
On 11 May 2026, in Brussels, Belgium, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže participated in a high-level meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, organised in Brussels by the European Commission in cooperation with Canada and Ukraine. The meeting focused on future joint efforts by national and international institutions to return Ukrainian children who have been illegally deported and forcibly transferred by Russia back to Ukraine. “Today we are focusing on the 1.6 million children who are under direct Russian control. Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children constitutes genocide, i.e., the forcible transfer of children from one group to another with the intent to destroy, in…
