Well, actually, we are not here as prosecutors and judges to establish that these are the particular crimes, but for me, these are obviously war crimes as established by article 8 of the Rome Statute. To be determined as crimes against humanity, the widespread and systematic nature of such actions should be established by the law enforcement authority and by the court.
As for me, the deportation of Ukrainian children looks more like the crime of genocide as it is defined by the 1948 genocide convention and also by article 6 of the Rome Statute. Despite the fact that these children were not physically or biologically destroyed or killed, the forcible deportation of children from one group to another group is considered genocide, as it deprives such a group of the chance for survival and their subsequent existence. By the courts—