A cross-party group of more than 130 Westminster MPs has written to ministers urging them to ensure any US-brokered peace plan for Ukraine includes protections for forcibly-deported Ukrainian children, saying the current version risked “extinguishing” their rights.

Led by the Labour MP Johanna Baxter, the letter to Stephen Doughty, whose Foreign Office brief includes Europe , warns that the current peace framework being touted by the Trump administration would “hollow out” protections to children enshrined in the Geneva convention.

Tens of thousands of children in parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia have been removed from their homes, with many taken to camps where they are indoctrinated and militarised, an effort widely seen as a war crime.

In the letter to Doughty, the 132 MPs,

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