Ukraine to launch a criminal case against Russia’s children’s rights commissioner who illegally adopted a Ukrainian child abducted in Mariupol by the Russians
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine initiated a case before the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine against the Commissioner for children’s rights under the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, who illegally adopted a Ukrainian child abducted in Mariupol by the Russian army.
According to the Ukrainian ministry, Lvova-Belova also admitted to facilitating the illegal adoption in the Russian Federation of about 350 more children from the occupied regions of Donbas in the Russian Federation.
“Transfer of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and their subsequent adoption by Russian citizens grossly violate 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,” the statement of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reads.
