{"id":39528,"date":"2025-10-29T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=39528"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:45:07","slug":"russias-childrens-ombudswoman-keeps-lying-about-the-abduction-of-ukrainian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russias-childrens-ombudswoman-keeps-lying-about-the-abduction-of-ukrainian-children\/","title":{"rendered":"russia\u2019s children\u2019s ombudswoman keeps lying about the abduction of Ukrainian children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>maria lvova-belova, the so-called commissioner for children\u2019s rights under putin, has accused Ukraine and Western media of \u201cspreading fakes\u201d about russia\u2019s deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories. She calls the forced transfer of children an \u201cevacuation\u201d and insists it is an \u201cact of care,\u201d not a crime.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, the kremlin is trying to distort reality and justify the abduction of Ukrainian children \u2014 actions that the International Criminal Court has already recognized as a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>The cynicism lies in the fact that lvova-belova herself recently admitted how she personally \u201cre-educated\u201d a boy abducted from Mariupol. She publicly said that the teenager initially hated russia and sang Ukrainian songs, but after living with her family, he \u201cchanged his mindset.\u201d This case became one of the grounds for the arrest warrant issued for her by the Hague Tribunal in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>kremlin propaganda seeks to portray the forced transfer of children from occupied territories as \u201crescue from war.\u201d In reality, it is a systematic attempt to erase their Ukrainian identity \u2014 children are placed in russian families, their citizenship and documents are changed, and they are raised in the spirit of the so-called \u201crussian world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>maria lvova-belova, the so-called commissioner for children\u2019s rights under putin, has accused Ukraine and Western media of \u201cspreading fakes\u201d about russia\u2019s deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories. She calls the forced transfer of children an \u201cevacuation\u201d and insists it is an \u201cact of care,\u201d not a crime. In this way, the kremlin is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}