Evidence that Vladimir Putin empowered Maria Lvova-Belova, his so-called commissioner of children’s rights, to set up a child-deportation programme is mounting
issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin as well as Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s so-called commissioner of children’s rights. The court says that the pair bear responsibility for two war crimes: the “unlawful deportation” and “unlawful transfer” of people—including children—from Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine into Russia . Neither individual is. But evidence that the president empowered Ms Lvova-Belova to set up a child-deportation programme is mounting.
Sometimes, the study claims, Russia presents the facilities as recreational camps to parents, seeking to gain their consent for children to travel. Guardians may wish to send infants out of the war zone, feel pressure from occupying forces to send them away, or simply believe that the camps offer children a free holiday. Some return home after an agreed-upon period. But the facilities may refuse to send them back, citing “safety concerns” .
“Re-educated” Ukrainian children, as the study calls them, contribute to the Kremlin’s propaganda campaign, which casts the Russian invasion as a liberation of Ukrainians from a Western-backed fascist regime. In February children deported from Mariupol, an occupied city in south-eastern Ukraine, appeared at a rally in Moscow celebrating the invasion’s first anniversary. A 15-year-old girl was chosen to “thank” the soldier who “saved” her from the city.
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