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Children Should Be Removed From Combat Area in Ukraine – Prominent Russian Pediatrician

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All children should be removed from the combat zone in Ukraine as soon as possible, Russia’s leading pediatrician and surgeon Leonid Roshal said Wednesday.

MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti) – All children should be removed from the combat zone in Ukraine as soon as possible, Russia’s leading pediatrician and surgeon Leonid Roshal said Wednesday.

“What is happening is a tragedy for everyone,” Roshal said.

“It is terrible for the Ukrainians, for Russians, for Ukraine and for Russia. And in this situation we should take care of the children. There is no doubt they should be removed from the war zone. The entire child population should be removed,” Roshal urged.

Leonid Roshal is chairman of the International Charity Fund to Help Children in Disasters and Wars. In 1988, the pediatrician participated in saving children who suffered in the aftermath of a major earthquake in Armenia. Roshal has since helped injured and sick children in Georgia, Algeria, India, Japan, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Haiti, Bashkiria, Yugoslavia, Gaza, Romania, and Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucusus.

Roshal negotiated with the terrorists during the theater siege in Moscow in 2002, persuading them to release eight children and sending medication to the hostages. Roshal also led negotiations with the terrorists during the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis.

Two children have died from fragmentation wounds during military assaults in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk.

Last week, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reported that seven children had been injured in the fighting in eastern Ukraine since May 9. UNICEF noted the crisis is having an increasing impact on children and urged all the parties to stop the violence.

Russia’s Ombudsman for Children’s Rights Pavel Astakhov has said Russian orphanages are ready to accommodate children trapped in war zones in Ukraine.

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