INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin's commissioner for the protection of children's rights informed the Russian leader during a meeting on
Thursday that she had recently adopted a 15-year-old child from the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine."Now I know what it
means to be a mother of a child from Donbas
It's hard, but we definitely love each other
I think we can handle anything," Maria Lvova-Belova said on Thursday in response to a question Putin asked her during a meeting at his
Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow.The admission is likely to spark outrage as Lvova-Belova is at the center of a Russian program that
least 6,000 Ukrainian children are living in Russian camps at present in what could constitute a war crime, a U.S
study published on Tuesday found.The official, who has been under sanctions from multiple Western countries since last year for supporting
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, said she had adopted the 15-year-old child "thanks" to Vladimir Putin.Lvova-Belova, who according to official
reports was already the mother and guardian of 22 mostly adopted children, was appointed Putin's children's rights commissioner in 2021.law
enforcement agencies about the facts of violation of the rights and legitimate interests of the child.She is also a member of the governing
body of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, the largest party in the Russian parliament.
