Missing Ukrainian child traced to Putin ally

girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.world – 129 points – Missing Ukrainian child traced to Putin ally
bbc.com

Sergey Mironov, the 70-year-old leader of a Russian political party, is named on the adoption record of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is now married to.

Records show the girl's identity was changed in Russia.

The child, originally named Margarita, was one of 48 who went missing from Kherson Regional Children's Home when Russian forces took control of the city.

They are among about 20,000 children who, according to the Ukrainian government, have been taken by Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

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Hitler kidnapped Polish children the same way as Puten has Ukrainian kids.

Putin is trying to tick every single box on every single form of genocide isn't he.

And not even only of Ukrainian people.

The meat he sends into the grinder are generally "undesirables" from ethnic regions of Russia Moscow only uses for hard labor and as meat for the grinder.

No matter how well or unwell intentioned, stealing babies from their parents to give to someone else has always been one of the most revolting crimes out there for me. Absolutely vile regardless of how the baby snatchers intend to treat the kid.

from their parents

Is that the case though? I thought children home = parentless children? It is potentially quite a better outcome for those particular kids

Oh you might be right about that. I didn't read too carefully after I saw that babies were snatched. If they weren't taken from any parents/caregivers it would matter a lot more how they were treated afterwards, but I still think the practice, even when it leads to better outcomes, is morally repugnant because it opens a very dangerous door to ever sign off on what essentially functions as human trafficking. Although it does make me slightly more relieved that at least they weren't taken from their parents. Glad you caught that!