By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families,

Russia's president and senior Kremlin officials financed and facilitated the transport of at least 314 Ukrainian children into "coerced" foster care and adoptions, a new Yale University report says.

At least 67 of the 314 children the report has confirmed were brought to Russia have been naturalized as Russian citizens since being taken.

According to the Yale University report, the Kremlin’s aircraft and funds were used to remove children from Ukraine to Russia.

US-backed research has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s presidential plane has been involved in deporting Ukrainian children to Russia. The US State Department-backed research was published on Tuesday,