published on Thursday by Nigeria’s presidency. […] The presidency also cited a video that has been widely shared on social media showing a Nigerian woman with her young baby being forcibly made to give up her seat to another person. “One group of Nigerian students having been repeatedly refused entry into Poland have concluded they have no choice but to travel again across Ukraine and attempt to exit the country via the border with Hungary,” read the statement.” Al Jazeera, The Nigerian students caught in the Russia-Ukraine war, 27 February 2022 Students scramble to leave Ukraine as the conflict intensifies, reaching new cities. […] The third-year medical student from Nigeria is coming to terms with the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that started last week. […] There are no official figures on the number of African students currently studying in Ukraine but Lawal said “there are hundreds of us in our city”. “At my university, there are about 100 Nigerian students. I’m sheltering with some of them,” Lawal added. […] Some students have managed to cross the border into Poland. “I live in Kyiv. I have been living here since March last year,” Somto Orah, a student at State University of Telecommunications in Kyiv, told Al Jazeera. “We have received no support from any government authorities. The school only gave us bomb shelter to hide when the air raid siren is on. The sirens came on and off for about five times yesterday before I left,” Orah, a Nigerian national, added. “There is little food. I couldn’t access cash for two days now. Every ATM on the road has no cash.” ADC Memorial, Migrant children in Ukraine not be placed in reception centers of the Ministry of Interior, 29 November 2021 “Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” advocates cancellation of the practice of placing migrant children into children’s reception centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs within the framework of the #Crossborderchildhood campaign and the project “Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights: deinstitutionalization and humanization of closed institutions in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine”. Until now this practice, which is regulated by the Chisinau agreement of the CIS countries, continues to exist in a number of countries, and migrant children are being placed in reception centres of the Ministry of Interior both before being sent to their home countries, and often also upon returning there, where they are forced to wait behind bars until decisions are made concerning their fate (i.e., whether they will return to their families or be placed into boarding schools). The Chisinau agreement ought to be replaced with new, more humane legal norms for the repatriation of children, without the involvement of the Ministries of Interior, without the use of children’s reception centres, where children are placed (imprisoned) as punishment for legal offenses. Migrant children do not violate the criminal codes, they have not come into conflict with the laws, and thus placing them into places of detention is a violation of the rights of minors. This situation was covered in a news report by Ukrainian Magnolia-TV, which was based on the situation in Ukrainian institutions for children. Ukraine withdrew from the Chisinau agreement, and in recent years the country strived not to place migrant children into children’s reception centres, but the problem has not yet been fully resolved. New international agreements are needed to return children who find themselves abroad without parents to their home countries, and more humane standards and norms are required concerning the terms of temporary placement of such children in the country of their temporary stay. These children are to be accompanied and supervised by the social services, not the police.” 83