Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Ukrainian civilians forcibly transferred to Russia.

The UK has supported multilateral fact-finding mechanisms to monitor Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including two OSCE Moscow Mechanism reports, which found evidence of clear violations of international law by Russian forces in Ukraine. These reports also noted with concern the issue of large-scale deportations of Ukrainian civilians to Russia. However, we are unable to verify the exact number of Ukrainian civilians forcibly deported to Russia, due to lack of access by international human rights and humanitarian institutions.