Russia Begs Estonia to Take Down Putin ‘War Criminal’ Banner on Border https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-begs-estonia-to-take-down-putin-war-criminal-banner-on-border
Just shows how sick Putin and his genocidal supporters are... Kremlin Children’s Rights Envoy Mocks Ukrainians for Trying to Get Kids Back https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-children-rights-envoy-mocks-145658931.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall The Kremlin children’s rights advocate accused of war crimes for overseeing Moscow’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is now openly mocking Ukrainian families who try to get their children back from Russia, according to a local report. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Thursday, Maria Lvova-Belova described Ukrainian children forcibly transported to Russia as if they were in need of fixing, lamenting that Russia will have to “re-educate” them after eight years of “powerful propaganda” in Ukraine, according to the local outlet Rotonda Media. Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador has said nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children were ripped away from their families or taken from orphanages during the war and forcibly transported to Russia. Investigations by the Associated Press and independent Russia media outlets found that in many cases the children were taken away and described as “orphans” in Russian propaganda despite having Ukrainian family members or parents. Some of them were quickly adopted out to Russian families. Lvova-Belova—who herself adopted a Ukrainian teenager yanked out of Mariupol—scoffed at the idea Russia is committing war crimes by kidnapping children. The Harrowing Vanishing of Orphaned Teens Trapped in Russia “When they say, ‘Return our children,’ where should we return them? To abusers? To those who didn’t take care of them?” she said Thursday, according to Rotonda. She reportedly briefly mentioned the teenager she adopted, Filipp, while complaining about how difficult it is to “reform” Ukrainian children. “The kind of propaganda that was used in Ukraine will not pass so easily,” she was quoted saying, describing it as a “struggle” for Russian families to overcome. (Early last month, Lvova-Belova unironically told reporters how “difficult” it was for her when her Ukrainian “son” shared how proud he was to hold up a Ukrainian flag at a protest and chased around her other children saying, “I will eat the Muscovite!”) Left unmentioned in her latest speech, of course, was that her “son” still has legal guardians in Ukraine, as Radio Free Europe’s “Schemes” investigative reporting project revealed last month. Russia Claims It’s Helping These Ukrainian Refugees—but What They Describe Is Torture Lvova-Belova—who was reportedly mockingly introduced ahead of her speech as an “international criminal who is wanted all over the world”—went on to express outrage over what she called an “outright provocation”: Ukrainian authorities trying to track down the children who were whisked off to Russia. “They search for the children through social networks and ask them to make videos about how hard it is for them to live in Russia,” she was quoted saying. In keeping with the Kremlin’s narrative that Russia is “saving” the Ukrainian children they forcibly deport, Lvova-Belova also claimed Moscow took in 31 kids who were “collected from basements” in Mariupol after being “abandoned” by their families, and expressed indignation at the “wave of negativity” she said resulted when the father of several of the children demanded them back.
Putin is trying to use children from foreign nations as human shields in Crimea. Russia wants to bring foreign children to Crimea before Ukraine's counteroffensive – Lithuanian MP https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/russia-wants-bring-foreign-children-220000230.html
Good! These Russians need to learn the reality of Putin's aggression and crimes. Russian prisoners of war ‘forced to watch brutal film showing Putin’s war crimes’ https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/22/russ...brutal-film-about-putins-war-crimes-18821512/ Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine have been shown a documentary showing some of the atrocities committed by their side during the invasion. A video released by Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman shows the shaven-headed prisoners of war absorbed as the film plays out on a small screen in front of them. Scenes featuring the killing of children and parents, the shooting of civilians and the shelling of residential buildings are included in the 29-minute documentary, which is titled ‘Absolute Evil’. The film’s captions state the footage was taken by the Russians themselves, and later uploaded to social media. Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said: ‘The Russian military were shown the documentary film Absolute Evil about their own war crimes committed in Ukraine. ‘What is in the heads of these persons, it is not known – what is in the eyes, see for yourself. ‘I hope that after watching it, they realise who is the absolute evil in this world.’ Several of the prisoners are shown leaning forward in their seats and watching intently, with grim expressions on their faces. The documentary opens with the killing of prisoner of war Oleksandr Matsievskyi, who smoked a cigarette and said ‘Slava Ukraini’ – glory to Ukraine – ahead of his execution in December last year. A video showing his death was spread widely in March, and his defiance led President Volodymyr Zelensky to posthumously award him the country’s highest honour: the Hero of Ukraine. Other moments in the film highlight the case of Liza Dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl who died in a Russian strike last July that also badly wounded her mother Irina. Directed by Kharkiv-born journalist Andriy Tsaplienko, Absolute Evil takes its name from a comment attributed to a priest at the burial of one victim. He is quoted as saying: ‘Absolute evil shall be defeated.’ The commentary tells viewers: ‘Mass killings of Ukrainians is Russia’s military strategy. ‘A managed process that involves those who pull the triggers and those who [give] the orders. ‘This film shows just a few of Russia’s war crimes. ‘But even so it helps one comprehend the scale of the absolute evil Ukraine is confronted with.’
‘I prayed I wouldn’t be next’ The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/05/26/they-tortured-people-right-in-their-cells