Ukrainian Foreign Ministry requests investigation into Russian Children’s Commissioner who has “adopted” a child abducted from Mariupol

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2022, 14:49

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked law enforcement agencies to open a case against Maria Lvova-Belova, a Russian citizen who claims to have "adopted" a child who was deported from the occupied city of Mariupol.

Source: application by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Quote: "The transfer of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and their subsequent adoption by Russian citizens are a gross violation of the legislation of Ukraine, as well as the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949, which provides for the obligation of the occupying state not to change the civil status of children, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989.

On behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is initiating a case before the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine against the Russian citizen Lvova-Belova, whose actions are seen as signs of a criminal offence."

Details: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called upon the international community to strongly condemn the war crimes committed by the Russian state and Russian officials against children in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Background: Maria Lvova-Belova, the ombudswoman to the President of Russia on children’s rights, claimed that she had adopted a Ukrainian child who was deported from the occupied city of Mariupol. 

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