This is a pattern used by Russia to destroy Ukraine as a nation, because kidnapping our children on such a massive scale is an attempt to steal our future, the future of our nation.
The first arrest warrant, as we mentioned already, is for Putin, who is at the top of this systematic practice, with explicit evidence that this is a part of Russian genocidal policies against Ukraine and Ukrainians.
You are absolutely right to mention that, first, the transfer of children from one group to another is in itself a part of the crime of genocide. We also have witnessed not only this element of genocide, but also another one: the incitement to commit genocide. We have already two convictions in Ukrainian courts against Russian propagandists, including one who publicly called for the killing of Ukrainian children—sinking them in the river.
With this, the other propagandist, Gasparyan, who is now also convicted by the Ukrainian courts, is the author of the so-called term “denazification”, which they used against us. He's one of the leaders of this incitement to genocidal policies. Of course, when this is systematic, from the incitement to the commission of the element of genocide, it's explicit evidence that the genocidal intent of the Russian Federation to erase, to eliminate, Ukraine as a nation is in fact present.