A warrant has been issued for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-arrest Belova’s in connection with the alleged kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children.
In a historic move, the Russian has been charged with war crimes alongside Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court.
Who is Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova?
Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova is Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
A Sun investigation last year revealed that Putin ally Lvova Belova also led an organisation tasked with placing kidnapped Ukrainian children in Russian homes.
‘Into the Hands of Children’ is described as a humanitarian mission to help families in Ukraine with aid.
She claims to be the “saviour” of war-torn children, but her compassionate rhetoric conceals a sinister plan to deport children from invaded territories.
On her Telegram channel and on Russian state television, the 38-year-old never stops bragging about her “good deeds.”
Forcibly transferring children and changing their nationality or civil status is a war crime under the 1948 Geneva Convention.
However, less than a month after Putin’s invasion, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported that 2,389 children had been illegally removed from occupied Ukraine.
According to Ukraine’s human rights chief, Dmytro Lubinets, 16,226 children have been deported, with only 308 being returned.
Many children have been orphaned or separated from their families as a result of Putin’s ruthless invasion.
Belova’s team of sick kidnappers is now free to abduct innocent children.
Her role in the deportation of Ukrainian children was described as “barbaric” by the UK government.
She is said to have ordered the “violent” removal of 2,000 children from the occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Lvova-Belova also proposed new legislation to expedite Ukrainian children’s adoption and grant them Russian citizenship.
She and her husband, a computer scientist turned priest, have five biological children.
Lvova-Belova is also the legal guardian of 13 disabled children who have been placed in charitable organisations she founded, some of which have been accused of misusing funds in the Russian press.
