Name: FACT CHECK: Putin Disguises Forced Deportation of Ukrainian Children as Compassion | Videos | Gan Jing World
Uploaded: 2023-03-07T05:00:00.000Z
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Description: On February 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. He commended Lvova-Belova for her ... | Videos | Gan Jing World

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On February 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. He commended Lvova-Belova for her work on implementing the state-organized deportation of Ukrainian kids and their adoption by Russians, which, he said, amounts to protecting the rights of the children as “our citizens”: 

"There is also a growing number of inquiries from our citizens concerning the adoption of children from the Donetsk and Lugansk republics and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions … The tragedy that is taking place in Donbas also concerns our very small citizens, children. … The Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights has been working hard on this issue and continues this work still." 

That is false. 

Children from Ukraine’s Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions are Ukrainian citizens. The Russian authorities have arranged their forcible deportation to Russia and adoption by Russians. That, according to the U.S. State Department, constitutes a war crime and an act of genocide as defined by the United Nations, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians. 

https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-putin-disguises-forced-deportation-of-ukrainian-children-as-compassion-/6974528.html 

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