The Ukrainian Parliament has adopted new bills aimed at resolving ambiguities regarding the status of children who have suffered due to the war.

These new regulations also officially define the status of deported and temporarily displaced minors.

This was announced by the Chairman of the Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk.

The legislation governing the status of war-affected children includes the Law "On Child Protection" and a Cabinet resolution. Previously, there were inconsistencies regarding who could grant this status and under what conditions.

The main goal of bill No. 12385 is to eliminate these inconsistencies. The document specifies that the status of a war-affected child can be granted based on:

• registered or declared place of residence;
• registration of the child as an internally displaced person;
• request, if the child’s residence is unregistered or located in areas of active combat;
• discovery of such a child by authorities.

Bill No. 9495 officially establishes the concept of deported and forcibly displaced children. According to the explanatory note, it sets the legal foundations for their return and aims to facilitate their further integration into Ukrainian society.

Deportation is recognized as the illegal transfer of a child to the territory of the aggressor state or allies without the consent of the child and their legal representatives, while forced displacement refers to the movement of a child from Ukraine to temporarily occupied territories or the Russian Federation without their consent.