Bloody Mary: Who is the perverted Maria Lvova-Belova that The Hague wants to arrest * Mother of 10 with Orthodox priest declares [videos]

FILE PHOTO: Among others, Maria Lvova-Belova has adopted a teenager from Mariupol who has been reported kidnapped. EPA/MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL MANDATORY CREDIT

If one reads the social media by Maria Lvova-Belova might think that Russia is selflessly taking and delivering Ukrainian children from harm to the care of Russian families who are desperate to share their love.

But according to US and European governments – and a new report by Yale University researchers, backed by the US State Department – Lvova-Belova is at the center of a Russian government plan to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia , often in a network of dozens of camps, where minors undergo political re-education.

Today, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for both Putin and Lvova-Belova, finding them responsible for war crimes, namely the illegal deportation of children and the illegal transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

“Maria Lvova-Belova is one of the figures most involved in the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children from Russia, as well as the use of camps to ‘integrate’ Ukrainian children into Russian society and culture,” the report said. Yale Humanities Research Laboratory Conflict Observatory.

Lvova-Belova, which in Ukraine is called “Bloody Mary” [Mατωμένη Μαρία] and who was appointed as Vladimir Putin’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights in 2021, created her Telegram channel days after Russia invaded Ukraine.

In between photos with a who’s who of Russian power – from Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the unbalanced bloodthirsty leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov – he posts glossy photos and videos of the wonderful life supposedly offered to Ukrainian children.

“By the end of the week, one hundred and eight Donbas orphans who have received Russian citizenship will have parents,” Lvova-Belova wrote in a typical post on her Telegram channel last July, using the Russian spelling for Ukraine’s Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk) .

“Shurochka was the first to surrender to her mother. When I heard that happy childish laugh, I couldn’t help it [τα δάκρυα]».

Lvova-Belova regularly visits Russian-occupied Ukraine, and the Russian government boasts that she personally escorted planes of children leaving Ukraine.

Putin authorized Lvova-Belova to use unspecified “additional measures” to locate children without parental care in the four Ukrainian regions it claims it has annexed to Russia.

THE UNICEFthe United Nations children’s agency, has said that “adoption should never take place during or immediately after emergencies” and that during unrest, children separated from their parents cannot to be considered orphans.

THE UN further considers the forcible transfer of another country’s population within or outside its borders to be a war crime.

Russia has called reports of forced relocation “absurd” and said it is doing its “best” to keep minors with their families….

In another characteristic post, from last December, Lvova-Belova posted photos around the table of a Russian family in the Kaluga region.

“I’ll be honest, I was crossing the threshold with trepidation: how they have settled, have everything they need, how relationships with parents and other children in the family have worked,” he wrote. “But all doubts were put aside in the first minutes. The family is wonderful!”

“For me, this is another confirmation that the work we have done to place orphans from Donbass is not in vain. Everything was done right.”

The United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom have sanctioned her for her role in the scheme.

“Lvova-Belova’s efforts specifically include the forced adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families, the so-called ‘patriotic education’ of Ukrainian children, legislative changes to expedite the granting of Russian Federation citizenship to Ukrainian children, and the deliberate removal of children of Ukraine. by Russian forces,” the US Treasury Department said in September.

She seems to enjoy the accusations attributed to her:

“Thank you to the British for the attention they have shown to our mission to help the children in Donbas,” he wrote in June. “In Russia we enjoy friendship as families, as organizations and from now on as those affected by the sanctions.”

From guitar teacher to politics

Lvova-Belova is a single mother to at least ten children – some biological and some adopted – with her husband, who is an Orthodox priest.

Born in the western city of Penza, she began her career as a guitar teacher for children. He eventually became involved in local politics, working his way up through the Russian power structure.

In a tearful TV report posted on her Telegram channel in November, Lvova-Belova recalled adopting a teenage boy from Mariupol who she claimed was left on the street by guardians who took him in after his mother died. from cancer.

However, journalists and observers say it is a teenager who was kidnapped from Mariupol and the incident has been reported to the Ukrainian war crimes prosecutor.

“This is the most beautiful person I have ever met in my life,” Filip says of his stepmother. “I’ve never had anyone love me as much as she does.”

The circumstances under which the young man gave the interview are unclear, including whether he was making statements under duress.

For Ukrainian children, a program called “The Day After Tomorrow” has been launched to help them integrate into Russian life.

Along with idyllic photos of bonfires by the Black Sea, Lvova-Belova said last August that Ukrainian children from the Donetsk region were in for a “great camp season.”

“The camp has nine themed workshops to enable teenagers to work out their life plans and career prospects. We can’t wait for the opening of the camp!”.

Russia’s embassy in Washington on Wednesday dismissed as “absurd” US accusations that Ukrainian children were forcibly moved.

“We took into account the absurd statements of the representative of the State Department Ned Price, who had accused our country of ‘forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children’ to the territory of the Russian Federation,” the embassy said in a statement on Telegram.

“Russia took in children who had been forced to flee with their families by the shelling and atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We do our best to keep minor children in families and in case of absence or death of parents and relatives – to transfer orphans under guardianship. We ensure the protection of their lives and well-being.”

The embassy went on to accuse Washington, which has provided military aid to the Ukrainian armed forces, of being complicit in the alleged deaths of children in Russian-held eastern Ukraine.