Leader of Russian political party adopts girl abducted from Ukraine and changes her name
Sergei Mironov, leader of the political party A Just Russia, has adopted a 10-month-old girl who was abducted from occupied Kherson Oblast in 2022 and changed her name.
Source: Russian media outlet Vazhnye Istorii (Important Stories)
Details: Mironov’s fifth wife, Inna Varlamova, and his deputy, Yana Lantratova, arrived in occupied Kherson Oblast at the end of August 2022.
When the women left, they took 10-month-old Marharyta Prokopenko and two-year-old Illia Vashchenko from the Kherson Children's Home with them.
Documents available to the media prove that in December 2022, Mironov and Varlamova adopted Marharyta and changed her name to Marina Sergeyevna Mironova.
The little girl didn't just get a new name and new parents. Her place of birth was also altered from Kherson, Ukraine, to Podolsk, near Moscow.
A source familiar with the situation reported that Marharyta's biological mother had been deprived of parental rights and her father is dead, but she does have other relatives. Meanwhile, Illia’s fate is still unknown. Vazhnye Istorii discovered that it was not until a year after his deportation, in September 2023, that he received a new birth certificate, from which it appears that he is in Moscow Oblast.
Reportedly, the case of Marharyta is the first documented case of a Ukrainian child being adopted by such a high-ranking Russian politician.
Lawyers interviewed by the journalists said that under international law, this can be categorised as a war crime and is considered genocide.
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