When the children, together with their parents, were first deported to the territory of the Russian Federation, they were coerced by the argumentation that there was no other way. It's very important to understand that despite the fact that international organizations, including UN authorities, offered alternative corridors for Ukrainian children and their parents to pass, Russian-occupying authorities refused to let them go through these corridors and insisted that the only way for them to emigrate from the zone of military action was through the Russian territories, that it was the only way of saving them and their children from the war and from death. Of course, it was very hard for these parents not to agree with these arguments to save their children's lives.
After they were deported to the Russian territories, all of them passed through the obligatory procedural filtration, and often filtration did not go well for the parents and parents were arrested. In these cases, the children were deported from their parents. Also, there were cases of children being forced to remain in the Russian territories while their parents were allowed to leave, and there were no possibilities for those parents to immediately reunite with their children.
As for the evacuation and the conditions that took place during the evacuation, we must note that according to its obligations under the Geneva Convention and under the additional protocol 1, the occupying state should not evacuate the civilian population unless there is no other way. In these cases, a lot of alternative ways to evacuate children with parents and orphans and children deprived of parental care to the territory controlled by Ukraine existed; therefore, Russia directly violated its obligations—